Extract text from an image, on your device
Pull text out of a picture. Photograph a page, screenshot a form, scan a receipt, and get selectable text you can paste anywhere. The recognition model runs on your own machine.
Live privacy check
How to image to text (ocr)
- Drop in the image containing the text you want.
- Choose the language the text is written in.
- Click Extract text. The recognition model loads on first use, which takes a moment.
- Copy the text, or download it as a plain text file.
Why this image tool is private
Ordinary OCR means sending your document to somebody's server, and people run OCR on passports, contracts and medical letters. Here the recognition model is downloaded once and then runs locally, so the image itself is never transmitted.
Other tools in this category upload your file to a server, process it in the cloud, and return a download link. That means your document sits on someone else's disk — often with a retention window measured in hours. Here, the file is read by your browser, transformed in memory, and saved straight back to your disk. You can watch it happen in the live check above: the counter for files uploaded stays at zero.