Free Image to Text Converter (OCR)

Extract text from images, screenshots, and scans right in your browser. Powered by the open-source Tesseract OCR engine — your image never leaves your device, nothing is uploaded.

100% private — OCR runs in your browser and your image is never uploaded.

How to Convert an Image to Text in Your Browser

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Drop in your image

Add a PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP, or GIF — a screenshot, a photo of a page, a scanned document, or a sign. Files up to 25MB are supported.

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OCR runs on your device

The Tesseract OCR engine reads the image entirely in your browser and recognizes the characters. Nothing is uploaded to a server at any point.

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Edit, copy, or download the text

The extracted text appears in an editable box. Fix anything OCR misread, then copy it or download it as a .txt file.

Everything You Need to Extract Text From Images

Optical character recognition (OCR) turns the pixels of text in an image back into editable, searchable characters. Here's what sets this image-to-text converter apart.

Truly private — no upload

Almost every other image-to-text site uploads your picture to their servers. This one runs OCR locally in your browser, so screenshots of private messages, IDs, or documents never leave your device.

Real OCR, not guessing

It's powered by Tesseract, the mature open-source OCR engine maintained with Google's backing — the same engine behind many paid tools, running free on your machine.

Editable, copyable output

Extracted text lands in an editable field with a live word and character count, so you can correct any misreads before you copy it or download a .txt file.

Works offline after loading

The OCR engine and language model download once (about 11MB), then everything works without a connection — no re-upload, no re-download.

When You Need to Convert an Image to Text

Any time text is trapped inside a picture, OCR gets it back out. These are the moments people reach for an image-to-text tool.

Copy text from a screenshot

Pull a quote, error message, code snippet, or address out of a screenshot where you can't select the text — no retyping.

Digitize printed documents

Turn a photo or scan of a printed page, receipt, or letter into editable text you can search, reformat, or paste into a document.

Grab text from photos

Extract a menu, sign, product label, or business card from a phone photo into text you can actually use.

Lift text from graphics

Recover the words from an infographic, slide, meme, or diagram that was only ever saved as an image.

Extract Text From Images Without Uploading Them

The catch with most 'free' image-to-text sites is that your image is sent to their servers to be processed. Since screenshots and scans routinely contain personal or sensitive information, doing OCR locally is the safer default.

In-browser with SupaTools

  • Your image is read on your device, never uploaded
  • Real Tesseract OCR, free with no watermark
  • Editable text output with copy and .txt download
  • No sign-up, no daily limit, works offline after loading

Typical online OCR sites

  • Your image — IDs, messages, docs — uploaded to their server
  • Free tiers cap pages per day or add sign-up walls
  • Upload and processing waits on every image
  • Unclear how long your uploads are stored

Pro Tips for Better OCR Results

Use a clear, high-resolution image

OCR accuracy depends heavily on sharpness. A crisp, well-lit, straight-on image of printed text reads far better than a blurry or angled photo.

Straighten and crop first

Rotate the image so the text is horizontal and crop away busy backgrounds. Less clutter means the engine focuses on the words that matter.

Expect to proofread handwriting

Tesseract is strongest on printed text. Handwriting and decorative fonts still work but need a closer proofread — the output is editable for exactly this reason.

Image to Text — Frequently Asked Questions

Convert Your Image to Text — Free & Private

Drop in a screenshot, photo, or scan and get editable text in seconds. The OCR runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded.