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Pull text out of screenshots, scans, and photos. Recognition runs in your browser with Tesseract.js — your image never leaves your device.
Your file is processed on your device only.
Screenshots, scanned documents, and photos of signs all contain text you may want to reuse. Optical character recognition (OCR) reads that text so you can copy it instead of retyping.
This tool uses Tesseract.js, a free OCR engine that runs as WebAssembly in your browser. The engine file and language data download from a CDN the first time you use it; your image itself is never uploaded.
FAQ
No. Text recognition runs entirely in your browser with Tesseract.js (WebAssembly). The OCR engine downloads from a CDN on first use, but your image stays on your device.
Accuracy depends on image sharpness and text clarity. Clean, high-contrast print and screenshots work well. Handwriting and decorative fonts are less reliable.
This tool recognizes English by default. Tesseract supports many languages; the engine downloads the needed language data on first use.
JPG, PNG, and WebP images. Very large images may be slower on low-memory devices.
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