Image to Text
Pull the text out of a screenshot, scan or photo with free in-browser OCR. Your images never leave your device.
Image to Text
Why turn an image into text?
Text trapped inside a picture can't be searched, copied or edited. A screenshot of a message, a photo of a printed page, a scanned receipt or a slide grabbed from a video all hold words you might need as real, editable text, and retyping them by hand is slow and error-prone. Optical character recognition (OCR) reads the letters in the image and gives you back plain text you can paste anywhere. Drop in a JPG, PNG or screenshot, and the tool recognises the words line by line and shows them in a box you can copy or download as a .txt file. You can run several images one after another. It all happens in your browser using an English recognition engine that downloads once and then works offline, so your images never leave your device. It reads printed and typed text best; clear, neat handwriting can work too, while messy or stylised writing is harder.
How do I extract text from an image for free?
Open the image in a browser-based OCR tool, click Extract text, then copy the recognised text or download it as a .txt file. The reading happens in your browser with an English text-recognition engine, so the image is never uploaded.