Image to Text (OCR)
Extract text from photos and screenshots. Free, no sign-up, files stay on your device.
Choose an image or screenshotor drag and drop a file here
Tip: press Ctrl+V to paste a screenshot.
🔒 100% private — processing happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
How to extract text from an image
- Choose the language of the text in your picture.
- Open a photo, scan or screenshot — or paste one with Ctrl+V.
- Wait a few seconds, check the recognised text, then copy it or download it as a .txt file.
This free OCR (optical character recognition) tool turns pictures of documents, receipts, slides and screenshots into editable text. It uses the open-source Tesseract engine running inside your browser: your image is never uploaded. The first time you use a language, the engine and its language data (a few megabytes) are downloaded from a public CDN and then cached. Clear, straight, well-lit images give the best results; handwriting is usually not recognised reliably.