Does this send images to a server?

No. The OCR engine runs locally inside your browser via web assembly. Your images never leave your machine.

What image formats are supported for OCR?

You can upload PNG, JPG, JPEG, WebP, and BMP images. The engine will instantly scan and extract text from photos, scans, and screenshots.

Can the OCR engine read handwritten notes?

The local OCR engine recognizes clean block-letter handwriting. Scripted, cursive, or highly messy handwriting may yield lower recognition accuracy.

Which languages are supported for text recognition?

Our client-side OCR tool currently supports English character recognition. Support for additional languages is being processed for future offline library versions.

Can I download the extracted text directly as a document?

Yes. You can copy the extracted text to your clipboard with one click, or export and download it as a plain text (.txt) file or editable Word (.docx) document.

Why is the OCR process taking a few seconds?

Unlike cloud services that use massive server farms, our OCR engine runs locally on your computer's CPU via WebAssembly. Processing speed depends entirely on your device's hardware capabilities.

Files never leave your device. Processing happens locally in your browser.

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Image to Text OCR

Perform client-side OCR on images (PNG, JPG) to extract editable text in seconds.

Drag & drop your PDF or Image here

Supports scanned PDFs, screenshots, JPGs, and notes

Local WebAssembly OCR

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100% Client-Side

Your document stays in-memory. Zero server uploads. Unlike cloud-based PDF tools, all conversion, compression, and visual editing happens directly within your web browser. No document files are uploaded to any server. This guarantees that your sensitive information remains completely private.

How to use this tool

1
Upload an image containing text.
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Wait for our local OCR engine (Tesseract) to transcribe it.
3
Copy the text or download it as TXT/DOCX.

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