Upload a screenshot from your phone or computer and copy the text that is inside it.
Screenshots are the fastest way to save something you see on a screen, but the text inside them is just pixels. You cannot select it, search it or paste it anywhere. Ocr4you's screenshot to text tool reads the picture and gives you the text back, so you can copy a quote from an Instagram post, a message from a chat, an error from a program, a slide from a video lecture or a paragraph from an app that does not allow copying.
Screenshots are usually PNG files with sharp, high-contrast text, which makes them ideal for OCR. Accuracy is often close to perfect, and the AI engine also understands text on coloured or dark-mode backgrounds and in many languages, including Hindi, Urdu and Arabic.
It runs in any browser on mobile or desktop, so there is nothing to install. You get free pages without signing up, the text is returned as Unicode that works in any app, and your screenshots are not shared or published. Read more in our guide to copying text from an image or screenshot.
Upload the screenshot on this page and click Extract Text. The text appears in a few seconds and you can copy or download it.
Yes, you get free OCR pages without creating an account.
Yes. PNG and JPG screenshots from any phone or computer are supported.
Yes. Light text on a dark background is recognised as well as dark text on white.
Yes. Select several images and the text from all of them is returned together.