Updated June 2026 · runs 100% in your browser

Image to Text (OCR)

Pull the text out of a screenshot or photo on your device. Nothing is uploaded — the OCR runs entirely in your browser.

Drop an image here

or click to choose — screenshots, scans or photos

🔒 Read on your device · 0 bytes uploaded

First image loads the OCR engine (~6 MB) — cached after that.

How it works

ConvertCabin runs Tesseract — a long-standing open-source OCR engine — compiled to run inside this browser tab. Your image is analysed on your device and the recognised text is handed straight back to you. Nothing is uploaded.

The first image downloads the engine and English data (about 6 MB), which your browser then caches, so later images start quickly and even work offline.

About OCR

OCR (optical character recognition) turns pictures of words into editable text. It shines on clean, printed, high-contrast text — think screenshots, documents and signs. Blurry, skewed, low-resolution or handwritten images are much harder and may come back with mistakes, so a sharp, straight, well-lit image gives the best results.

Frequently asked questions

How do I extract text from an image?
Drop an image (or click to choose), wait for the OCR engine to load on the first run, and the recognised text appears in a box you can copy or download. It all runs in your browser.
What kind of images work best?
Clear, high-contrast printed text works best. Photos that are blurry, skewed, low-resolution or handwritten are much harder to read accurately.
Is my image uploaded?
No. The OCR runs entirely on your device using a local copy of Tesseract; your image is never sent to a server.
What is a TXT file?
TXT is plain text with no formatting — just characters. It's the most universal, lightweight document format and opens in any text editor on any system.