Image to Text – Extract Text from Photos with OCR
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the technology that bridges the physical and digital text worlds. When you photograph a document, scan a receipt, or take a screenshot of uncopyable text (like text embedded in an infographic or video), you have an image, not editable text. This tool scans the pixels in your image, recognizes the character shapes, and converts them into selectable, editable digital text.
Unlike many online OCR tools that upload your documents to cloud APIs (which can be a security risk for sensitive data like invoices or contracts), this tool runs Tesseract.js — a complete OCR engine compiled to WebAssembly that runs directly in your browser tab. The extraction happens locally on your device's CPU. The output text can be copied to your clipboard with a single click.