Pull the text out of a photo, scan or screenshot. Recognition runs in this tab; the image is never uploaded.
Low confidence. If the text is not in the language you picked, choose another one above and it will be read again.
The image and the text stay in this tab. Close it and nothing is left behind.
The recognition engine — Tesseract, compiled to WebAssembly — and the language files are downloaded from this site once and cached. That is the only traffic, and it happens before you choose anything.
Your image is opened from memory and, if it is small, enlarged first: small type reads far better at two or three times its size.
Recognition runs in a background thread on your machine. The text and a confidence score come back; the image is discarded when you close the tab.
Something else? Write to support@ocrsnip.com.
Really. Open your browser's developer tools on the Network tab and paste an image: no request carries it. The engine and the language files are fetched from this site — that is a download to you, not an upload from you — and after the first visit they are served from the cache.
Because the screenshot is already in your clipboard the moment you take it. Press Ctrl+V (⌘+V on a Mac) anywhere on this page and it is read straight from there. There is also a page built around exactly that, with the capture shortcuts for Windows and Mac.
Eleven: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian — each on its own or paired with English for a page that carries both. Auto mode reads in English and switches to Russian when the result looks unsure; for anything else, naming the language gives the better result. Every model is a file served from this site and downloaded only when you pick that language, so choosing Polish costs one download the first time and nothing after.
Yes, this tool is free, with no limit on the number of images. The paid pass on this site is for the document converters — bank statements to Excel and the tools that follow it.
This page gives you the text as lines. A table converter that keeps rows and columns is the next tool on this site; until then, the lines paste cleanly into a spreadsheet if the source was aligned.
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