Screenshot Text Extractor
Get Copyable Text From Any Screenshot
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Recognizes error messages, chat text, or UI labels without needing to retype them.
Original
Drop an image, or click to browse
Processed locally in your browser — never uploaded
Built for screenshots — copy error messages, chat text, or UI labels without retyping. Runs entirely in your browser via WebAssembly, no upload.
Features
- Runs entirely in your browser
- Privacy-first — your data is never uploaded
- Real-time, instant results
- 100% free, no sign-up required
- Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile
- No installation needed
Who uses this tool?
About Screenshot Text Extractor
Screenshots capture text as pixels, not selectable characters — an error message, a chat conversation, a code snippet in a video call, a UI label you need to reference. Retyping any of that is tedious. This tool runs a real OCR engine (Tesseract, compiled to WebAssembly) directly in your browser to recognize the text in a screenshot and hand it back as plain, copyable text.
Screenshots are generally an excellent case for OCR: they're typically clean, high-contrast, and use consistent digital fonts rather than the noise and distortion of a photographed page, which tends to produce very reliable recognition results compared to other OCR use cases.
This handles PNG, JPG, and WebP screenshots — the common formats screenshot tools and browsers save to — decoding and analyzing the image entirely on your device.
Nothing is uploaded during recognition; the only network activity is a one-time download of the English language model the engine needs, after which everything runs locally.
How it works
- Upload your screenshot. PNG, JPG, or WebP all work.
- Recognition runs locally. Tesseract analyzes the image entirely in your browser.
- Copy or download the text. Get clean, plain text ready to paste anywhere.
Examples
Copying an error message
Input
screenshot of a terminal error
Output
the exact error text, ready to search or share