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Image to Text (OCR)

Extract text from images with OCR, right in your browser. Drop a photo, screenshot or scanned page, then copy the recognized text or download it as a .txt file. The image never leaves your device.

How to use

Image to Text (OCR) in three steps

  1. 01

    Drop, paste or browse for an image with text in it.

  2. 02

    Wait a few seconds while the text is recognized on your device.

  3. 03

    Copy the text or download it as a .txt file.

Guide · 3 min readHow to copy text from an image or screenshotTurn a screenshot, photo or scanned page into text you can copy, edit and search.

FAQ

Good to know

Clear, well-lit printed text: screenshots, scans and straight-on photos of documents. Handwriting, very small text and busy backgrounds are less reliable, so check the result before you use it.

English, including numbers and common punctuation.

No. Recognition runs in this browser tab. The first time you use it, the tool downloads its OCR engine and English language model (about 7 MB) from this site; your image never leaves your device.

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