Free Tool
Image to Text (OCR)
Pull the text out of a screenshot, scan, or photo — right in your browser. No sign-up, and your image is never uploaded to a server.
- Runs on your device
- JPG, PNG or WEBP
- Nothing uploaded
The first run downloads the OCR engine (~a few MB) — it's cached after that.
Pull the words out of a picture
The information you need is right there in a screenshot, a photo of a page or a scanned document — but you cannot select it, copy it or search it. Retyping it by hand is slow and easy to get wrong.
OCR looks at an image, finds the shapes that are letters and numbers, and converts them into real, editable text. Drop in your image, let it scan, copy the result.
How it works, step by step
Three steps, no account, and nothing to install. Clear, high-contrast text works best, which is worth knowing before you choose which image to use.
- Drag a JPG, PNG or WEBP onto the page, or click to upload.
- The tool scans the image and extracts the text.
- Your editable text appears, ready to paste wherever you need it.
- 1Add your imageJPG, PNG or WEBP, dragged or chosen.
- 2Let it readThe engine scans it on your device.
- 3CopyEditable text, ready to paste.
One honest heads-up about the first scan
We would rather tell you this up front so nothing feels broken. The first time you use it, your browser quietly downloads the OCR engine — a few megabytes — and saves it.
- That first scan can feel slow. It is the download, not the recognition.
- Every scan after that is much faster, because the engine is already there.
- This is also exactly why the picture never has to travel: the engine comes to you rather than your image going to a server.
Being honest about accuracy
No OCR tool is magic. It is genuinely very good on clear, high-contrast printed text and screenshots. It gets harder from there, and the fix is mostly in your hands.
- Use a sharp image, good lighting and as little background clutter as possible.
- A clean screenshot will almost always beat a hurried phone photo.
- It reads English and other Latin-alphabet text. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic or Cyrillic text will not come out correctly.
PDFs, big files, and anything that is not an image
The tool reads image files. There are two situations where a small extra step is needed, and both take about thirty seconds.
- If your text is inside a PDF, screenshot or export the page as an image first, then scan that.
- If your image is very large, shrink it first with the Image Compressor.
- Because it runs in the browser it behaves like a website rather than software — Windows, Mac, Chromebook or your phone, with nothing to keep updated.
Four numbers worth keeping
Why Parix.ai gives this away
Running OCR in the browser costs us nothing per scan, which is why there is no quota and no sign-up on it. These tools are how people find us — and that works better when they do what they say.
Scan an imageWho uses it
Anyone staring at a screenshot they cannot copy from: a receipt, a slide, a scanned page, a photo of a document someone sent instead of the file.
If the image needs work first
Shrink an oversized file with the Image Compressor, or crop and resize it with the Image Resizer before scanning. Once the text is out, the Word Counter tells you how much of it you actually got.
When it is a pipeline, not a one-off
If documents arrive as images every week, our workflow automation team builds the thing that reads them without anyone opening a browser.