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Drop an image here
or click to choose (PNG / JPG / WebP) — a screenshot, scan, receipt or photo of text

100% private — your image never leaves this page. The OCR runs on your device. No upload, no account.

First run downloads the English OCR model (~15 MB) from a CDN, then it's cached for instant reuse. Want a fully offline version with the model bundled in? That's the desktop app below.

Free Online OCR — Image to Text

Drop a screenshot, scan, receipt or photo of text and pull the words straight out into editable text. English recognition runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded, everything happens on your device.

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How to use it

  1. Drop a screenshot, scan, receipt or photo of text onto the picker.
  2. The OCR engine runs entirely in your browser and pulls the words out.
  3. Copy the editable text or download it — your image is never uploaded.
Textract desktop app

Need fully-offline OCR, batch folders & searchable PDFs?

The Textract desktop app does everything this demo does plus a bundled model (no CDN, works on a plane), batch-OCR whole folders, export searchable PDFs, and a screenshot-to-text global hotkey — offline, forever, for $19 once. MIT-licensed source included.

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