How to Extract Text from an Image (Free OCR)

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) converts the text inside images into editable, copyable text. It works on photos of book pages, whiteboards, screenshots and scanned documents.

For best results, use sharp, well-lit images with the text as horizontal as possible. Crop away backgrounds and avoid shadows across the page.

Modern browser-based OCR like Tesseract.js processes images locally, meaning your image never leaves your device, which is ideal for private documents.

After extraction, proofread the output. OCR commonly confuses similar characters like 0/O and 1/l, especially in low-resolution images.

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