Designed for printed text. Handwriting, vertical text and complex tables may be recognized incorrectly.

01Add

Drop images or PDFs here

Or paste with Ctrl+V / ⌘V

Photos stay on this device. Free · No sign-up · No server uploads.

03Choose a recognition engine (model)

Printed text (Tesseract) · English · About 12.1 MB to download

Recognition preprocessing

Auto is usually the most accurate. Try Strong only for special cases, such as scans or faxes with heavy stains or smudging. The original stays unchanged.

Advanced settings · individual steps

04Results

Add files and extract text to see results here.

Corrections · 0 corrections

OCR uses

Extract text from images, screenshots and PDFs, then edit and copy it. Free, with no account or file uploads.

Extract text from images

Recognize printed text in photos in your browser, then edit and copy the result.

Copy text from screenshots

Extract text from a captured screen, edit it and copy it. Paste an image to start.

Extract text from PDFs

Read a PDF’s text layer directly and use OCR on pages without a text layer.

OCR scanned PDFs

Read scanned PDF pages without a text layer in your browser and copy the text.

Japanese and Chinese image OCR

Extract printed Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese text from images.

Experimental Korean handwriting OCR and its limits

Try experimental Korean line recognition, with limitations for real handwriting and line detection.

Extract codes and words from recognized text

Use prefix, contains and pattern filters in word tools to find and copy codes. Try W+digits.