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Image to Text (OCR)

Turn screenshots, photos, and scans into editable text in your browser.

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Text recognition runs entirely in your browser — images and PDFs are never uploaded.
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Drop an image or PDF here, or click to browse
Scanned pages, screenshots, photos of documents — PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP, PDF
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01 · Real-world fits

Common use cases

  • Copying text out of a screenshot or photo of a document
  • Converting a scanned PDF into searchable, editable text
  • Digitizing receipts, letters, and printed forms
  • Extracting quotes from book pages photographed on a phone
  • Pulling text from images where copy-paste is disabled
02 · The honest pitch

Why Image to Text (OCR)?

Most OCR sites upload your document to a server — a problem for IDs, contracts, and medical records. This tool runs the Tesseract OCR engine as WebAssembly inside your browser: the engine is downloaded once, your files are never uploaded, and it works on multi-page PDFs with per-page progress.

03 · Edge cases

Frequently asked questions

No. The OCR engine (Tesseract compiled to WebAssembly) runs locally in your browser. Only the engine itself is downloaded on first use — your files never leave your device.