Copy Text from a Screenshot
Turn screenshots back into selectable text: paste one straight from the clipboard (Ctrl/⌘+V), and the text — error message, chat, table, slide — becomes copyable in seconds. All locally.
Privacy-first: every image is processed locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored or transmitted to any server.
Paste in, copy out
The fastest path from a screenshot to usable text: take the screenshot, press Ctrl/⌘+V on this page, wait a moment, press Copy. No saving files, no uploading, no retyping a 40-character error code by hand. Screenshots are ideal OCR material — crisp, high-contrast, perfectly horizontal — so accuracy on them is about as good as OCR gets.
For the text that refuses to be selected
Error dialogs that won’t let you select their message, code in a video tutorial, a config snippet in a screenshared window, terms shown in an app, a Wi-Fi password on a router label photo — all text you can see but not copy. Extraction happens in your browser, which matters more than it seems: screenshots routinely contain internal tools, private chats and account details that have no business on an OCR server.
Frequently asked questions
- Is my image uploaded to extract the text?
- No. Recognition runs on your own device using a WebAssembly build of the Tesseract OCR engine. Documents, IDs, letters and screenshots never touch a server.
- Why is there a one-time download?
- The OCR engine (≈5 MB) and a trained data pack for each language you select (≈1–3 MB each) have to reach your browser once. You are told the size before anything downloads, and everything is cached locally — later runs work instantly, even offline.
- Which languages are supported?
- Twenty: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Estonian. You can select up to three at once for mixed-language images.
- How accurate is it?
- On clean screenshots and scans, very accurate. Photos work best when the text is sharp, well-lit and roughly horizontal. A confidence score is shown with every result, and the output is editable so you can fix stray characters before copying.
- What can I do with the result?
- The extracted text appears in an editable box — copy it with one click or download it as a .txt file named after your image.
- Can it read handwriting?
- No — like most OCR engines it is built for printed and on-screen text. Neat block capitals sometimes work, but cursive handwriting is not supported.