Image OCR
Browser-based OCR to extract text from images
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Image OCR
What is Image OCR?
Image OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that extracts text from images. It makes text in photographs, screenshots, or scanned documents digitally editable.
PdfMetric's Image OCR tool uses Tesseract.js to process entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded to a server.
When Should You Use It?
- Extract text from photos: Digitize text from photographs
- Screenshots: Make screenshot text copyable
- Scanned documents: Extract text from scanned documents
- Multi-language support: Recognize text in 12 different languages
Advantages
- Browser-based processing: Data is never sent to a server, fully private
- Free: No registration required
- Multiple formats: Supports JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, GIF
How to Use
- Upload an image: Upload the image you want to extract text from.
- Select language: Choose the language of the text in the image.
- Choose output format: Select plain text (.txt) or JSON format.
- Start processing: Click "Process" and wait for the OCR engine to recognize text.
- Download results: Download the recognized text as a file.
Tip: Use clear, high-resolution images for better recognition results.
Tool Info
- Accepted formats: .jpg,.jpeg,.png,.webp,.bmp,.gif
- Max file size: 20 MB
- Processing: Browser
Your Privacy
Your files are processed entirely in your browser and never uploaded to our servers.
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