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Image to Text OCR
Extract editable text from uploaded images with in-browser OCR.
Image to Text OCR
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About the Image to Text OCR tool
The Image to Text tool uses in-browser OCR to pull editable text out of photos, screenshots and scanned documents. Upload an image and it recognises the characters within it, giving you text you can copy, search and reuse instead of retyping everything by hand, which is a real time-saver for longer passages.
Students digitising handwritten or printed notes, professionals extracting figures or quotes from a screenshot, and anyone capturing text from a sign or a page rely on it to skip tedious manual transcription. Recognition quality depends on the source image, so sharp, well-lit and reasonably straight images produce the most accurate results.
Crucially, the OCR runs entirely in your browser, which means your images are processed on your own device and never uploaded to an external service. That makes it suitable for documents you would not want to send elsewhere, and there is no install or account standing between you and the extracted text.
Frequently asked questions
How does the text extraction work?
It runs optical character recognition (OCR) on your image with Tesseract.js, recognising the characters and returning editable text.
Are my images uploaded to a server?
No. The OCR runs entirely in your browser, so your images are processed on your device and never uploaded.
What affects recognition accuracy?
Sharp, well-lit and reasonably straight images recognise most accurately; low-resolution or skewed images may need a clearer source.
What can I do with the extracted text?
You can copy it and reuse it anywhere, which saves retyping text from screenshots, photos or scans.