Every scan, every screenshot, into text. Offline. Once.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Adobe Acrobat Pro, at $19.99/mo — roughly $240 a year, every year. Textract does the job for a one-time $19 — running locally on your own machine.
Drop images (PNG/JPG/WEBP/BMP/TIFF) or PDFs, get per-page extracted text — PDFs are rasterized page-by-page automatically.
For freelancers, drag-drop OCR pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $19, not metered per month.
Page thumbnails, text pane, per-page copy and copy-all, confidence indicator, .txt export.
For freelancers, per-page results pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $19, not metered per month.
Rebuilds the PDF with an invisible text layer positioned from OCR word bounding boxes — Ctrl-F-able and copy-able in any PDF reader.
For freelancers, searchable-PDF export pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $19, not metered per month.
One-time $19 for the packaged Windows installer — English OCR bundled, tray icon and hotkey ready out of the box.
Drag images or PDFs into the app, or press Ctrl+Shift+T from anywhere to snap a screen region straight to clipboard text.
Copy text per page, save .txt files, batch a whole folder, or export a true searchable PDF you can Ctrl-F in any reader.
Textract is $19, once. Adobe Acrobat Pro at $19.99/mo — roughly $240 a year, every year. One month of Acrobat Pro costs more than Textract, forever. Everything after month one is money you keep.
One month of Acrobat Pro costs more than Textract, forever. Everything after month one is money you keep. Textract costs $19 once; Adobe Acrobat Pro charges $19.99/mo — about $240 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — the full source is MIT at github.com/bensblueprints/textract-ocr-mvp, always. $19 buys the signed installer, 1-click setup and updates instead of npm i && npm start.
It's Tesseract's accuracy — excellent on clean scans, screenshots and printed documents, mediocre on handwriting or heavily skewed photos. It's not a cloud vision model, and we're not claiming it is. For sensitive paperwork the trade-off is worth it: nothing gets uploaded.