Screenshot to Text

A screenshot is the fastest way to capture something on screen — and the slowest thing to reuse, because the words inside it aren’t text yet. This tool closes that gap. Snap a screenshot, paste it with Ctrl/Cmd+V, and the characters come back as text you can select, edit, and paste anywhere. There’s no “save as PNG, then upload” detour; the clipboard is the input.

Think about what usually lands in a screenshot. A cryptic error message you want to search or send to a colleague without retyping it. A stretch of a chat conversation you need to quote. A code snippetfrom a video or a slide that you’d rather run than transcribe. A receipt or an order confirmation whose total and reference number belong in a spreadsheet. A paragraph from a paywalled or selection-blocked articleyou want to cite. In each case the information is right there on the display, but it’s locked inside pixels until something reads it back out as text.

Because everything happens on your own machine, the screenshot never travels anywhere. That matters more than it sounds like: screen captures routinely include things you’d never intentionally hand to a random website — a customer’s details in a support ticket, an internal dashboard, a two-factor code, a draft you haven’t published. Here the recognition model loads once into your browser and then does its work locally, so those captures stay between you and your device. After that first engine download, the tool even keeps working offline.

The output is built to be useful, not just dumped. Lines are grouped in natural reading order, so a multi-line error or a stacked list comes out structured instead of scrambled. Every detected block is individually clickable, which makes it trivial to lift just one value — a single order ID, a URL, one line of a stack trace — out of a busy screen. When you want the whole thing, copy it in one click or export a .txt or .docx. It’s free and unlimited, reads 50+ languages, and runs on the PP-OCRv6 engine, so pasting one screenshot or a hundred costs nothing and asks for no account.

Not everything worth capturing is already on your screen, though. For a printed page, a receipt, or a sign in front of you, Scan to Text swaps the clipboard for your camera and reads it with the same on-device engine. And when you only need one value out of a busy capture rather than the whole thing, Copy Text from Image turns each detected line into its own clickable target.