Take the screenshot, press Ctrl+V on this page, and the text is yours. Nothing is saved to disk and nothing is 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.
Win+Shift+S opens the snipping bar; drag over the text. The capture goes to the clipboard — come here and press Ctrl+V.
⌘+Ctrl+Shift+4 captures a region straight to the clipboard, without saving a file. Then ⌘+V here.
A screenshot you already saved works too: drop the file on the box above. Recognition happens on your machine either way; the image never leaves it.
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Two usual causes. The clipboard holds a file path rather than an image — that happens when you copy a screenshot file from a folder; drop the file on the box instead. Or the page is not focused: click anywhere on it once, then paste.
Really. Open the Network tab in your browser's developer tools and paste: no request carries the image. The engine and language files are downloaded from this site once — to you, not from you — and cached.
Screenshots are the best case for OCR: sharp type on a plain background. Expect near-perfect text on normal screen content. Very small type is enlarged before recognition, which helps more than you would think.
Eleven languages are here: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Pick one from the list before you paste, or pick a pair — English plus your language — when the window mixes an English menu with local text, which is how most software actually looks. The model for a language is downloaded from this site the first time you choose it and cached after that.
Same engine, on the image to text page — it is tuned for the same job but written for people who start from a photo or a scan rather than from the clipboard.
Yes, with no limit. The paid pass on this site is for the document converters, such as bank statements to Excel.
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