The friction problem with most OCR tools
You need to extract text from a screenshot. It should take 10 seconds. Instead:
- Site 1: "Sign up for a free account to continue."
- Site 2: "You've used your 3 free conversions this month. Upgrade to Pro."
- Site 3: Uploads your image to their server. Privacy policy unclear.
- Site 4: Works, but the UI has 12 ads and the button you need is hidden behind a banner.
This is the gap this tool was built to fill. No account, no limit, no upload, no ads covering the thing you're trying to use.
How to use it (30-second walkthrough)
- Open imagetotextocr.vercel.app — no signup prompt.
- Drag your screenshot onto the page, or click and select it.
- Click Extract Text.
- Click Copy.
- Done. Close the tab.
No account needed. Open it and try right now.
Extract text for free →Why is it really free?
Because it has no running costs. The OCR engine (Tesseract.js) runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly — there's no server processing your image, which means no server bills to pay. Hosting on Vercel's free tier keeps the static files available worldwide at no cost.
Development time and ongoing improvements are supported by optional Ko-fi donations from users who find it useful. If it saves you time, a coffee is appreciated but never required.
Supported image types
PNG, JPG, JPEG, WEBP, BMP, GIF — any standard image format your screenshot tool produces. Works with images from screenshots, phone cameras, screen recordings, downloaded images, and scanned documents.
Multi-language support
Select your language before extracting: English, Filipino, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese, and 90+ more. The language data downloads once and is cached in your browser for faster future use.