The OCR engine runs entirely on your device. The language model is downloaded once from the official tessdata source and cached — your image is never uploaded to any server.

About Image to Text (OCR)

Extract text from images for free with on-device OCR. Drag and drop a photo, screenshot, or scan and get editable, copyable text. Supports English, Spanish, French, German, and Arabic. Runs entirely in your browser.

Image to Text (OCR) is a free tool in the Text & Language Tools category on BrowseryTools. It runs entirely in your browser — your data is never uploaded to a server, and there's no registration, no ads, and no watermarks, so your privacy is fully preserved.

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