Image to Text Converter (OCR)

Turn photos, scans, and screenshots into editable text you can copy anywhere. Paste a screenshot straight from your clipboard, batch-convert a stack of images, and download it all as a text file — without your images ever leaving your device.

100% in your browser — your images are never uploaded.
Drop images here, click to browse — or just paste
JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP — press Ctrl+V to paste a screenshot

About the Image to Text Converter

Text trapped in an image is text you can't use — you can't copy a phone number out of a screenshot, search a photographed receipt, or edit a scanned paragraph. This tool runs OCR (optical character recognition) on any image and hands the text back to you, editable and copyable, in seconds.

What makes it different from the usual "image to text" sites is where the work happens: your images are never uploaded. The OCR engine runs inside your browser, which matters because the things people extract text from are often exactly the things they'd least want on someone else's server — receipts, IDs, medical letters, contracts, whiteboards full of company plans, or private chat screenshots.

What it does

How it works

The tool uses Tesseract, the most widely used open-source OCR engine in the world, compiled to WebAssembly so it runs entirely in your browser. The first run downloads the engine and your chosen language model (a few megabytes, cached for future visits); after that, recognition happens locally — even offline. Small images are automatically upscaled before recognition, which noticeably improves accuracy on screenshots.

Tips for the best results

Common questions

How do I copy text from a screenshot or photo?

Paste the screenshot straight in with Ctrl+V (or drop a photo) and the OCR types out the text, editable and copyable, with a confidence score. The text was always there; now you can select it.

What languages does the OCR read?

Seventeen, including the major European and Asian languages. Pick the language of the source for the cleanest extraction.

Can I extract text from many images at once?

Yes. Batch a set of photos or scans and each produces its own editable text block, with a combined download when you want everything in one file.

How accurate is image to text conversion?

Very good on clear print and decent screenshots, and lower-resolution sources are automatically upscaled before recognition to help. Handwriting and stylized fonts remain hard for any OCR, so expect to fix a word here and there.

Are my images uploaded for OCR?

No. Recognition runs entirely in your browser, which matters because the images people extract text from (documents, IDs, letters) are the ones that least belong on someone's server.

Related tools