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This tool reads the text out of an image - a screenshot, a scanned page, a photo of a document - using the Tesseract OCR engine compiled to WebAssembly. Pick the language, press Extract, and the recognized text appears in an editable box you can copy or download as a .txt file, with word and character counts.
Recognition happens entirely on your device: the image is never uploaded to a server. The only network traffic is a one-time download of the OCR engine and the language model (a few megabytes) from a CDN, which your browser caches for the next visit.