OCR, short for optical character recognition, reads the printed text inside a photo, a screenshot, or a scanned document and turns it into text you can copy, search, and edit. Doing it in your browser means the image never leaves your device, which matters because photos and scans often contain private information.
The images people send through OCR are rarely random pictures. They are receipts, letters, identity documents, medical forms, screenshots of messages, and pages from books. Uploading one to an online OCR service hands a copy of that document to someone else's server. Running OCR in your browser keeps the image on your device, and it also works without a connection once the page has loaded.
Image to Text (OCR): extract readable text from photographs, screenshots, and scanned documents, in your browser. Copy the text or download it as a file. No signup.
Does my image leave my device? No. The OCR tool runs in your browser, so the image is processed on your own device and is never uploaded to a server.
What kinds of images work best? Clear, straight photos of printed text, screenshots, and clean scans. Sharp, well-lit images with good contrast give the most accurate results.
Can OCR read handwriting? Not reliably. Printed text reads well, but handwriting is often misread or missed, so check handwritten results closely or type them out by hand.
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