Extract and Summarize Text From an Image
Run browser-based OCR software on a screenshot, scan, receipt, or photo and turn visible printed text into an editable draft.
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Browser-based OCR software
Optical character recognition, or OCR, analyzes letter shapes in an image and produces editable text. This page loads Tesseract.js when extraction starts and performs the recognition workflow through the browser. It is useful for screenshots, clean scans, receipts, labels, and straight photos with printed text.
The tool is not a desktop document-management suite and does not watch a scanner, process a folder, preserve page layout, create searchable PDFs, or open a PDF directly. For a PDF you are permitted to process, convert the required page with PDF to JPG, run OCR on the image, and compare the result with the original page.
Image OCR input and output limits
Clean printed text in screenshots, scans, receipts, and straight photos usually produces the most useful result. Handwriting, decorative lettering, low contrast, curved pages, and motion blur are less reliable and always need manual review.
This page accepts an image and returns editable plain text. It does not open a PDF directly or create a searchable PDF layer. Convert the required page with PDF to JPG, run OCR on that image, then verify names, numbers, punctuation, and line breaks before using the TXT output.
How to use it
- Upload a readable image.
- Run OCR and wait for progress to finish.
- Review, edit, copy, or download the text.
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Images that OCR can read well
Image to Text OCR works best with screenshots, scans, receipts, labels, book pages, and photos where the text is straight, sharp, and well lit. High contrast between letters and background is more important than a decorative photo. If the image is too dark or noisy, edit the contrast before running OCR.
For PDFs, first convert the relevant page with PDF to JPG, then upload the image here. For charts or tables captured as screenshots, extract the visible labels and numbers, then build a clean visual with the Chart Maker.
Review the extracted text
OCR output should always be checked before using it in invoices, citations, applications, or published content. Similar characters such as 0 and O, 1 and l, or rn and m can be misread. Line breaks and punctuation may also need cleanup after extraction.
The tool loads OCR support only when you start extraction, which keeps the page lighter during normal browsing. The result can be copied, edited, or downloaded as a text file. For long extracted passages, use the Word Counter to check length or the Text Summarizer to create a shorter draft.
Improve OCR accuracy
Before extracting text, crop away borders, photos, and page areas that do not contain useful writing. OCR engines perform better when the text fills the image and runs horizontally. A straight screenshot from a PDF or web page usually produces cleaner output than an angled phone photo of the same text.
For tables, preserve row spacing and column labels in the image before running OCR, then check the copied result line by line. Numbers, dates, email addresses, and product codes deserve extra attention because one wrong character can change the meaning of the extracted text.
Summarize text from an image in two transparent steps
- Run OCR on the image and correct recognition mistakes.
- Select Open in Summarizer to transfer the reviewed text through browser session storage.
- Choose how many original sentences the extractive summarizer should retain.
- Compare the summary with the full OCR text before using it.
This is OCR followed by local extractive sentence selection. It is not a generative AI summary, webpage fetcher, story-understanding model, transcript service, or direct PDF summarizer.
Scan handwriting to text for free
To convert handwritten text to digital text, upload a clear photo of the handwriting, ensure good lighting and sharp focus, and run the OCR extraction. The tool processes the image entirely in the browser using Tesseract.js and returns editable text you can copy or download.
For best results, write in dark ink on white paper, keep lines straight, and avoid cursive if possible. Print-style handwriting produces significantly higher accuracy than flowing script. The tool handles English and common Latin scripts; other languages may require the Tesseract language data downloads.