OCR: How to Extract Text from Images and Scanned Documents
Pull text out of photos, screenshots, and scanned PDFs. Free OCR tool that runs in your browser.
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Someone texted you a photo of a document. Now you need to type out all that text by hand. Or do you?
OCR in 3 Steps
- Open the OCR Text Extractor
- Upload the image (photo, screenshot, scan)
- Copy the extracted text
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. It reads text from images the same way your eyes do, except it can do an entire page in 2 seconds.
What Works Best
Printed text on clean backgrounds: Near-perfect accuracy. Business cards, receipts, book pages, letters.
Screenshots: Excellent. Text on screen is clear and consistent.
Handwriting: Hit or miss. Neat handwriting works okay. Doctor's prescriptions? Not a chance.
Low-quality photos: Accuracy drops with blur, shadows, and skewed angles. Take a straight-on, well-lit photo for best results.
Common Uses
Digitizing receipts: Snap a photo of each receipt and extract the text for expense reports.
Copying text from images: Memes, infographics, screenshots where you can't select text.
Searchable PDFs: Turn scanned documents into text you can search through and copy from.