How accurate is browser-based OCR?

Accuracy is strong on clean, high-contrast printed text and lower on handwriting or low-resolution photos, similar to other Tesseract-based OCR tools.

Which languages are supported?

The underlying engine supports 100+ languages; this build ships with English loaded by default.

Is anything sent to a server?

The image and the recognition step both stay on your device. The one exception is the initial download of the OCR language file, which is fetched once and cached by your browser.

Extract Text from Image (OCR)

Pull editable text out of a photo or screenshot using on-device optical character recognition.

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How to use the Extract Text from Image (OCR)

1
Upload an image
Add a photo, screenshot, or scan containing text.
2
Run text recognition
The tool loads an on-device OCR engine and scans the image. The first run downloads a small language model; recognition itself runs locally.
3
Copy or download the text
Review the extracted text, then copy it or download it as a .txt file.

Frequently asked questions

How accurate is browser-based OCR?: Accuracy is strong on clean, high-contrast printed text and lower on handwriting or low-resolution photos, similar to other Tesseract-based OCR tools.
Which languages are supported?: The underlying engine supports 100+ languages; this build ships with English loaded by default.
Is anything sent to a server?: The image and the recognition step both stay on your device. The one exception is the initial download of the OCR language file, which is fetched once and cached by your browser.