OCR Text Extractor

How to use the OCR Text Extractor

Upload or drag-and-drop any image containing text - a screenshot, document scan, photo of a whiteboard, or anything else. Select the document language and hit Start OCR. The engine runs entirely in your browser, so nothing is ever uploaded to a server.

Why extract text from images and PDFs?

Scanned letters, screenshots, photographed receipts and image-only PDFs are not searchable or copyable. OCR turns them into editable, searchable text so you can quote a clause, file a receipt or translate a document — without sending the file to anyone else.

Step by step: image to editable text

1. Drop a PNG, JPG, WEBP or PDF that contains text.
2. Wait while the text is recognised — larger images take a little longer.
3. Read the extracted text, fix any stray characters, then copy or download it.

Quick reference

Condition of the source	Effect on accuracy
300 DPI or higher	Best results
Cropped tightly to the text	Best results
Skewed or rotated scan	Much worse
Low contrast or shadowed	Worse
Handwriting	Unreliable

Improving recognition accuracy

• Scan or photograph at a straight angle; even a slight tilt increases errors.
• Crop to the block of text so the engine is not distracted by borders, stamps and logos.
• Use greyscale or black-and-white for high-contrast printed text.
• Always proofread numbers, IDs and proper nouns — OCR often confuses 0 with O and 1 with l.

Is it private and secure?

Yes. The OCR processing happens entirely in your browser using Tesseract.js. No image data is sent to any external server. Your documents stay on your device at all times.