Screenshot to Text turns screenshots into selectable, copyable text. Paste a screenshot straight from your clipboard — or drop the file — and the Tesseract OCR engine recognizes the text entirely inside your browser. Screen text is sharp and high-contrast, so screenshots are among the most accurate OCR sources.
Pick the language the text is written in — it strongly affects accuracy.
Drop a screenshot here, click to browse, or paste from clipboard
PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP supported — best results with clear printed text
Yes. The tool is free and runs directly in your browser with no account required.
No. Recognition is done by the Tesseract OCR engine compiled to WebAssembly, running inside your browser tab. The screenshot never leaves your device — which matters, since screenshots often contain private information.
Yes. Capture with PrintScreen, Win+Shift+S, or Cmd+Shift+4, click the drop zone, and press Ctrl/Cmd+V. The image is recognized immediately without saving a file.
Screen text is rendered pixel-sharp with strong contrast and no photographic noise, which is close to ideal input for an OCR engine. Expect noticeably better results than from photos of paper.
Yes — that's one of the most common uses. Extract the exact error text so you can search for it or paste it into a bug report instead of retyping it.
Small UI text can drop accuracy. Zoom the source window before capturing, or crop the screenshot tight around the text, so the letters are larger relative to the image.
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. Pick the language that matches the text on screen.
