OCR — Image to Text
Upload a photo, scan, or screenshot and get back the text it contains, processed by Tesseract OCR on the server.
OCR — Image to Text
Extracted text
How to extract text from an image (OCR)
Upload a photo, scan, or screenshot and get back the text it contains, processed by Tesseract OCR on the server.
How this works
Unlike every other tool on this site, OCR genuinely needs server-side processing: Tesseract, the open-source OCR engine behind this tool, is a real computer-vision model too large and CPU-intensive to run inside a browser tab. Your image is sent to the server, processed in memory for that one request, and discarded immediately after the text comes back.
How to use it
- Drop or choose an image containing text.
- Pick the language the text is written in.
- Select Extract text, then copy the result.
Tips for accurate results
- Higher resolution and sharper focus both improve accuracy noticeably.
- Straight, upright text works better than rotated or heavily skewed text.
- Good contrast between text and background (dark text on a light background) helps most.
Privacy
This tool is a server-side exception: the image is uploaded, processed in memory by Tesseract for that single request, and discarded immediately — it is never stored or logged.
FAQ
Which languages are supported?
English, Portuguese, and Spanish — pick whichever matches the text in your image before extracting.
Does this work on handwriting?
Tesseract is trained on printed text and works best on it; handwriting recognition is a different, much harder problem and results will be unreliable.
Is my image stored anywhere?
No. It's processed in memory on the server for the single request and discarded immediately afterward — never written to disk or logged.