How accurate is it for screenshots?

Very — usually above 98% for standard interface text, because the pixels are sharp and the baseline is perfectly straight.

Can I paste an image from my clipboard?

Save the capture first, then drop the file in. Direct clipboard paste isn't supported yet.

Is anything uploaded?

No. Recognition runs entirely in your browser, so private dashboards and messages stay private.

Why did small text come out garbled?

Very small or heavily anti-aliased text loses detail. Zoom the page in before capturing, or capture at a higher device scale.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. The interface is responsive and touch-friendly, and converted files save straight to your device's downloads.

Do you add a watermark or resize my image?

Never. Output is exactly what you asked for — the original dimensions unless you deliberately choose a resize option.

Screenshot to Text Converter

Grab the text from a screenshot of an error message, chat, slide or receipt — recognition happens on your device.

No training on your data
Region: global

Language of the text

Keep line breaks

Design & Creative AssetsImage Manipulation

Screenshot to Text — Overview

About this tool

What is Screenshot to Text?

Screenshot to Text copies the words out of a screenshot. Screens are full of text you cannot select: error dialogs, chat bubbles, slide decks, banking apps, video frames, locked PDFs shown in a viewer. A screenshot captures it as pixels — this tool turns those pixels back into text.

Screenshots are the ideal case for optical character recognition, because the text is crisp, evenly lit and perfectly straight. Accuracy is usually far higher than with a photograph of paper, so most results are usable with no proofreading at all.

Recognition runs on your device, which matters because screenshots so often contain something private — an account balance, a customer's message, an internal dashboard.

What it does

What does Screenshot to Text do?

Made for on-screen captures:

Reads PNG and JPG screenshots at very high accuracy
Batch up to 10 captures at once
14 languages supported
Flatten line breaks so wrapped text pastes cleanly
Copy or download the text instantly
Nothing uploaded — safe for dashboards and private messages

How to use

How to use Screenshot to Text

1
Take the screenshot
Windows: Win+Shift+S. Mac: Cmd+Shift+4. Phone: the usual button combination. Crop tightly to the text you want.
2
Drop it in
Add the capture and pick the language of the text.
3
Copy the text
Extract, then copy — or turn off 'Keep line breaks' first if you're pasting a wrapped paragraph into a document.

Good to know

Privacy & cost

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, logged, or saved on our servers — safe for confidential or proprietary data.

Use cases & scenarios

Where it fits

Searching an error message

Copy the exact wording out of a dialog box so you can paste it into a search engine or a bug report.

Quoting a chat or email

Get selectable text from a conversation you could only screenshot.

Notes from slides or video

Capture a lecture slide or a frame of a tutorial and keep the text.

Numbers from a dashboard

Pull figures out of a chart label or table image and into a spreadsheet.

Value & benefits

Why people pick this tool

✓Free forever — no file caps, watermarks, sign-ups or premium tier
✓100% in-browser conversion — your images never touch a server
✓Batch mode: convert up to 40 images in one pass and download a single .zip
✓Works offline once the page has loaded
✓No queues, no e-mail-me-the-link, no ads stapled to your download

Frequently asked questions

FAQs

Final thoughts

The bottom line

Unselectable text on screen is one of computing's small daily annoyances. A screenshot plus one click makes it copyable again, with nothing leaving your machine.

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