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Screenshot to text

Copy text out of a screenshot: error messages, code in a video frame, a chat, a slide. Nothing is uploaded.

🔒 Private by design: the conversion runs in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded.

Screenshot to text is a free online tool by Hack the Hydra. Extract text from screenshots free: error messages, chats, slides, UI. OCR runs in your browser, no upload, no account.

100% freeNo upload: runs in your browserNo sign-up

Best results

Crop to the text you need and keep the original resolution. For screenshots with scattered text (UI, dashboards), the API offers a "sparse text" layout mode.

Code in screenshots

OCR reads code well when the font is large enough, but always check symbols like quotes, backticks and l/1/I before running it.

How to use

  1. Drop your file in the box above, or click to pick it.
  2. Wait a few seconds while it converts locally.
  3. Copy the result or download it.

FAQ

Does it work on Windows and Mac screenshots?

Yes, any PNG, JPG or WebP image.

Is it private?

Yes. OCR runs inside your browser with Tesseract.

Bulk conversion API

OCR thousands of images by URL with confidence scores and word positions: $1.50 per 1,000 images. Open the API →

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/extas_corp~image-ocr/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"imageUrls":[{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc/main/images/eurotext.png"}]}'

Use it via API, with a free plan: Document to Markdown API (RapidAPI) · Apify

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