Need to copy text from a screenshot, photo, or scanned document? Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extracts text from images so you can edit, search, and reuse it. Here's how to do it for free with AI-powered OCR.
Use Cases for OCR\n\n- Copy text from screenshots (error messages, code, UI text)\n- Digitize printed documents and notes\n- Extract text from business cards\n- Convert handwritten notes to text (with limitations)\n- Extract data from receipts and invoices\n- Read text from photos of signs, labels, or packaging
How to Extract Text from Images\n\n1. Go to pixelforgeai.club/tools/image-to-text\n2. Upload your image (JPG, PNG, WebP — supports any image format)\n3. AI analyzes the image and extracts all readable text\n4. Copy the extracted text to your clipboard\n\nThe tool uses Salesforce's BLIP vision-language model, which understands context and can even describe images without text.
Tips for Best OCR Results\n\n- Use high-resolution images (at least 300 DPI equivalent)\n- Ensure good contrast between text and background\n- Straighten crooked photos before OCR\n- For documents, photograph from directly above (no angle)\n- For screenshots, use the original full-resolution image
When OCR Struggles\n\n- Handwritten text (improving but not perfect)\n- Very low-resolution images\n- Text overlaid on busy backgrounds\n- Decorative or stylized fonts\n- Text in scripts not well-represented in training data
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