OCR Text Extractor

What is This Tool?

OCR Text Extractor is a free browser-based optical character recognition (OCR) tool that extracts text from images. It uses Tesseract.js to process images entirely on your device — nothing is uploaded to any server. This makes it a private, free alternative to paid OCR services like Adobe Acrobat ($15/mo), Smallpdf ($12/mo), and iLovePDF ($7/mo).

How to Use This Tool

1. Drag and drop an image or click to upload a JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, or TIFF file.
2. Select the language of the text in your image from the dropdown. English is selected by default.
3. Click Extract Text and watch the progress bar as the OCR engine processes your image.
4. Once complete, review the extracted text in the output area. A confidence score shows how accurate the recognition is.
5. Use the Copy button to copy text to your clipboard, or Download to save it as a .txt file.

When to Use This Tool

Use this tool to digitize printed documents, extract text from screenshots, convert scanned documents to editable text, or grab text from photos. It's perfect for students, researchers, professionals, and anyone who needs to convert image-based text into editable, searchable content without paying for expensive OCR software.

Supported Languages

This tool supports 12 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, and Russian. Select the correct language before extracting for best results.

Tips and Best Practices

• Higher resolution images produce more accurate OCR results. Aim for at least 300 DPI for scanned documents.
• Ensure good contrast between text and background. Dark text on white background works best.
• Straight, non-rotated text is recognized more accurately than skewed or curved text.
• For multi-language documents, run OCR separately for each language section.
• The first run may take a few seconds longer as the language model is downloaded and cached in your browser.
• All processing happens in your browser — your images are never sent to any server.