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Image to Text (OCR)

Extract text from a photo or scan.

🔒 Runs entirely in your browser — nothing here is ever uploaded

About the Image to Text (OCR)

Extracts readable text from a photo or scanned document directly in your browser, so you can copy text out of an image without retyping it.

How to use it
  1. Upload an image containing printed text.
  2. Click Extract text and wait for recognition to finish.
  3. Copy the extracted text with the copy button.
Formula
Uses Tesseract, an open-source OCR engine, compiled to WebAssembly (via tesseract.js) so it runs entirely in your browser rather than on a server.
Worked example

A clear photo of a printed paragraph typically extracts with high accuracy; a blurry, low-contrast, or heavily stylized image extracts less reliably.

Recommendations
  • • Good lighting and a straight-on angle improve accuracy more than image resolution alone.
  • • Crop out irrelevant background before uploading — the Image Cropper works well for this.
  • • For dense multi-column documents, expect more line-ordering mistakes than a simple single-column page.
Frequently asked questions
No — recognition runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. The OCR engine itself (not your image) is fetched from a public CDN the first time you use the tool, a one-time download of generic software, not your data.
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