Is my image uploaded when I extract text?

No. OCR runs entirely in your browser using Tesseract (WebAssembly). Your image never leaves your device.

Image to Text (OCR) — Free & Private, In Your Browser

Free image to text converter (OCR). Extract text from a photo, screenshot or scanned page instantly — everything runs in your browser with Tesseract, so your image is never uploaded. Copy or download the text.

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TL;DR: Free image to text converter (OCR). Extract text from a photo, screenshot or scanned page instantly — everything runs in your browser with Tesseract,…

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A free, private image-to-text (OCR) tool. Extract the text from a photo, screenshot or scanned page right in your browser with Tesseract OCR — your image is never uploaded.

What you can do

Photo to text — read printed text from a picture of notes, a book page or a worksheet.
Screenshot to text — pull the words out of a screenshot.
Copy or download the extracted text as a .txt file.
100% private — the OCR engine and language data load once, then work offline; nothing is uploaded.

Clear, high-contrast printed text works best. 100% free. Count the result with the Word Counter, listen with Text-to-Speech, or browse all free tools.