Text & OCR Tools

A screenshot of a paragraph, a photographed page of a book, a scanned form — the text is right there, but you can't select, copy, or search it until it's been pulled out as real, editable text. That's what optical character recognition (OCR) does.

These tools offer both an on-device recognition mode that never leaves your browser, and an optional cloud mode for meaningfully better accuracy on photos, stylized text, or non-English scripts — which one is used, and why, is disclosed plainly on each tool rather than left unclear.