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Image to Text (OCR)

Read the text out of a screenshot, photo or scan with OCR. Pick the language, watch the recognition progress, review the result with per-word confidence, and copy or download the extracted text.

Everything runs locally in your browser. Your data never leaves your device.

Drop images with text here

or click to browse, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V

Screenshots, photos and scans all work. Several at once are fine.

Language

Pick the language the text is written in. Recognition quality depends on it.

Text output

Every recognized line stays on its own line, like in the image.

Next steps

Send this tool's output straight into another tool.

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About the Image to Text (OCR) Tool

This tool reads the text out of any image with OCR, powered by the Tesseract engine compiled to WebAssembly. Drop in a screenshot, a photo of a page or a scan, pick the language the text is written in, and watch it turn into text you can select, edit, copy and download.

Every recognized word carries a confidence score. Under each result, the confidence view tints the words the engine was unsure about, so you can proofread exactly where it matters instead of re-reading everything.

What you can do

  • Extract text from a screenshot, photo or scanned page.
  • Copy text out of an image you can't select text in.
  • Recognize text in English, German and over 25 more languages.
  • Turn a scanned document into an editable .txt file.
  • Find and fix uncertain words with per-word confidence highlighting.
  • Keep the original line breaks or reflow the text into paragraphs.
  • Process several images in one go.

How to use the Image to Text (OCR)

  1. 1Drop images onto the tool, click to browse, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V.
  2. 2Pick the language of the text. English and German are included, other languages download once on first use.
  3. 3Watch the progress bar while each image is recognized.
  4. 4Read the result, fix any words marked as uncertain in the confidence view, and edit the text in place if needed.
  5. 5Copy the text or download it as a .txt file.

Line breaks or flowing paragraphs

OCR sees a page as lines, but you often want running text. The layout toggle switches between the two: Keep line breaks reproduces the lines exactly as they appear in the image, which suits code, tables and receipts. Reflow paragraphs joins the lines of each paragraph into flowing text and rejoins words that were hyphenated across a line break, which suits book pages and articles you want to paste into a document.

What the confidence scores mean

Tesseract rates every word from 0 to 100. The tool groups those scores into three buckets: solid (85 and up), shaky (60 to 84) and uncertain (below 60). Shaky and uncertain words are tinted in the confidence view under the extracted text, and each result shows its average score, so a quick glance tells you whether the output needs proofreading. Hover any word to see its exact score. If you only want the text, the Show confidence toggle in the text output settings hides the view.

Getting good results

Recognition quality depends mostly on the input. Sharp, high-resolution images with dark text on a light background work best. Crop away busy surroundings, straighten skewed photos, and make sure the selected language matches the text, since the engine reads with one language model at a time. Decorative fonts and handwriting are hit and miss.

If a photo needs straightening or cropping first, the Image Cropper & Resizer can prepare it. The extracted text can be sent on to other text tools from the cards below the result.

Credits

Open source does the heavy lifting in this tool. Thank you to:

  • Tesseract.js

    A WebAssembly port of the Tesseract OCR engine, able to read text in over 100 languages.

Everything this site builds on is listed on the credits page.

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