Image to text (OCR)
Pull the text out of photos and screenshots.
Runs entirely in your browser. Verify it in your network tab.
Choosing only the language on the page is a little faster and more accurate.
What this does
Tesseract, the open-source OCR engine, runs in your browser and reads each image in English, Malay or both. Phone photos are turned upright first and small screenshots enlarged, both of which help it. You get the text to copy, and can save it as a .txt or as a PDF of the images with the text searchable.
Limits
- The first run downloads the OCR engine and language data once, about 15 MB, from this site.
- Printed text only. Handwriting is read poorly or not at all.
- Straight, sharp, well-lit photos read far better than skewed or blurred ones.
- Layout is not kept: columns and tables come out as plain lines of text.
Is this private?
Yes, and you can check rather than take our word for it. Open your browser's network tab and run the tool: your file never appears in it, because there is no server to send it to. The whole site is static files, plus the WebAssembly engine that does the work, which is served from this same domain.