What is OCR? Turning images into copyable text
A short intro to optical character recognition and how this site extracts text from images in the browser.
OCR finds glyph regions in an image and maps them to editable characters.
This tool runs recognition in your browser so images stay on your device — useful for screenshots you would rather not upload.
Printed text and clear screenshots usually work; handwriting, heavy compression, skew, and complex multi-column layouts often fail.
Scanned PDFs typically need OCR before you can turn them into editable Word docs; start with a page export or screenshot here.