Image Tools
Image OCR
Extract English text from an image with OCR that runs in your browser.
Runs in your browser Your input never leaves your device.
Drop an image here, or .
About this tool
Pull text out of a screenshot, scan or photo of a document. The tool uses Tesseract (tesseract.js), an open-source OCR engine, set to English. The first time you run it, your browser downloads the OCR engine and English language data from a CDN, which takes a moment, and then recognition runs locally; your image is not uploaded. Progress is shown, and the result appears in a text box with a Copy button. Accuracy is best on sharp, high-contrast, straight printed text. It is weak on handwriting, decorative fonts, tilted pages and small, blurry text.
How to use it
- Drop an image or choose a file.
- Wait for the engine to load and the progress bar to finish.
- Read the extracted text.
- Press Copy.
Common problems
- Output is garbled
- Use a larger, sharper image with dark text on a light background, and straighten it first.
- Non-English text is wrong
- Only the English language model is loaded, so other scripts and accented letters are unreliable.
- Stuck on loading
- The engine files come from a CDN, so an offline connection or a blocker may stop them. Check your connection and retry.