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Extract text from images
Pull words out of screenshots, receipts, and slides—fast, free, and private. Your pictures never leave this tab. Best for clear, printed English.
Turning screenshots into editable text
OCR is helpful when you need to extract text from a screenshot, a photographed sign, or a scanned note. It saves retyping time and gives you a starting point for editing, search, translation, or cleanup in a text editor.
Why cleanup still matters
Optical character recognition is useful, but it often introduces line-break noise, odd punctuation, or misread characters such as l and 1. Running the result through a text cleaner afterward can make the extracted copy much more usable.
After OCR cleanup
Run extracted text through the smart text cleaner to fix line breaks and odd characters common in screenshot OCR output.
Accuracy
Crisp horizontal text works best — handwriting and ornate fonts fail often.
From scan to editable text
Receipts, slide photos, and scanned handouts often need to become editable notes. OCR gives you a starting draft—expect to fix line breaks and odd characters before publishing.
Language and fonts
Decorative script fonts and low-contrast gray text reduce accuracy. Re-shoot or increase contrast before relying on OCR for archival search.
Quick start
- Upload an image — Choose a screenshot or photo with horizontal printed English text.
- Run OCR — Tesseract.js processes the image locally once language data loads.
- Copy extracted text — Paste into an editor and clean up with the text cleaner if needed.