Extract Text from Images (OCR) — Online, Free, Private
Drop one or more images and extract all readable text using Tesseract OCR, entirely in your browser. Supports 11 languages including English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.
Great for digitizing printed documents, reading text from screenshots, or pulling information from photos of signs and labels. Copy the result to your clipboard or save it as a .txt file.
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Frequently Asked Questions — Image to Text (OCR)
English by default. The Tesseract engine running in your browser supports many languages.
High accuracy for printed text on clean backgrounds. Handwriting, artistic fonts, and low-resolution images give worse results.
No. Tesseract runs entirely in your browser via WebAssembly. Your images stay on your device.
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