[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":75},["ShallowReactive",2],{"tool-content-en-image-ocr":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":65,"extension":66,"locale":67,"meta":68,"navigation":69,"path":70,"seo":71,"stem":72,"toolId":73,"__hash__":74},"tools\u002Ftools\u002Fen\u002Fimage-ocr.md","Image to Text (OCR)",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":57},"minimark",[9,14,18,22,43,47,50,54],[10,11,13],"h2",{"id":12},"what-does-this-ocr-tool-do","What does this OCR tool do?",[15,16,17],"p",{},"It reads text out of images — screenshots, photos of documents, slides, receipts — and turns it into editable plain text. Recognition runs entirely on this device with an on-device OCR engine; the image is never uploaded anywhere.",[10,19,21],{"id":20},"how-to-use-it","How to use it",[23,24,25,29,32,40],"ol",{},[26,27,28],"li",{},"Drop one or more images into the upload area (JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF).",[26,30,31],{},"Pick a language: English, or English + Simplified Chinese.",[26,33,34,35,39],{},"Press ",[36,37,38],"strong",{},"Recognize text",". Each image shows live progress and can be cancelled mid-run.",[26,41,42],{},"Edit the recognized text inline if the OCR needs a fix, then copy or download it.",[10,44,46],{"id":45},"accuracy-and-confidence","Accuracy and confidence",[15,48,49],{},"Every image reports an average confidence percentage so you know which results to double-check. Words below a minimum confidence are dropped rather than guessed, which keeps the output clean at the cost of the occasional missing word. Clear, high-resolution screenshots give the best results; long edges above 2000 px are scaled down before recognition.",[10,51,53],{"id":52},"first-use-and-privacy","First use and privacy",[15,55,56],{},"The first recognition downloads about 7 MB (English) or 10 MB (English + Chinese) of OCR engine and language data from a CDN, then the browser cache serves later runs. Only the model files are downloaded — your images and the recognized text stay in this tab and are not stored anywhere.",{"title":58,"searchDepth":59,"depth":59,"links":60},"",2,[61,62,63,64],{"id":12,"depth":59,"text":13},{"id":20,"depth":59,"text":21},{"id":45,"depth":59,"text":46},{"id":52,"depth":59,"text":53},"Extract text from screenshots and photos with on-device OCR. English and Chinese, batch support, images never uploaded.","md","en",{},true,"\u002Ftools\u002Fen\u002Fimage-ocr",{"title":5,"description":65},"tools\u002Fen\u002Fimage-ocr","image-ocr","hosG3LfHhNiLd4Ep-xMaTrrOx0aVHssnjBbCGA_tFSw",1792391418318]