Free Online Image to Text
Extract Text From Any Image Using Real OCR
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Copying text out of a photo, scan, or screenshot normally means retyping it by hand. This tool runs Tesseract, a genuine, widely-used optical character recognition engine, compiled to WebAssembly and executed entirely inside your browser — the same class of technology behind many commercial and open-source OCR products.
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Drop an image, or click to browse
Processed locally in your browser — never uploaded
Runs a real OCR engine (Tesseract) entirely in your browser via WebAssembly — no upload. Works best on clear, well-lit, high-contrast text.
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 Image to Text
Copying text out of a photo, scan, or screenshot normally means retyping it by hand. This tool runs Tesseract, a genuine, widely-used optical character recognition engine, compiled to WebAssembly and executed entirely inside your browser — the same class of technology behind many commercial and open-source OCR products.
Upload any image and the engine analyzes it pixel by pixel, recognizing printed characters and reconstructing them as plain, copyable text. This works on photographs of documents, scanned pages, screenshots, and most images containing clear printed text.
Recognition accuracy depends heavily on image quality: clean, high-resolution, well-lit, high-contrast text recognizes very reliably, while blurry, skewed, low-resolution, or handwritten content produces more errors — an inherent limitation of OCR technology generally, not specific to this tool.
The only network activity involved is a one-time download of a small English language model the first time you use the tool; the actual recognition of your image's content happens fully on your device, and nothing is ever uploaded.
How it works
- Upload your image. Any photo, scan, or screenshot with visible text.
- Recognition runs locally. Tesseract analyzes the image entirely in your browser.
- Copy or download the text. Get clean, plain text ready to use anywhere.
Examples
Extracting text from a scanned page
Input
photo of a printed document
Output
clean, copyable plain text