Copy Text from Image

Right-click any image or capture any area of the screen - the text is recognized on your device and copied. Free every day; Pro is $9.99 once.

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Copy Text from Image

That text you need is trapped in an image — a screenshot, a menu, a scanned page. Get it out in one click, without your image ever leaving your computer.

Add to Chrome — it's free

Free every day · Pro is $9.99 once — yours forever

Two ways to grab text

🖱️ Right-click any image Choose "Copy text from this image" — the text is recognized and copied to your clipboard. Menus, memes, photos of documents, error screenshots: anything.

⌖ Capture any area Press Alt+Shift+T and drag a box over any part of the screen — a video frame, a PDF page, text a website will not let you select. The text inside is yours.

Your images never leave your computer

Most OCR tools upload your image to a server to read it. This extension does not: the open-source Tesseract engine runs entirely inside your browser.

✓ Safe for contracts, IDs, bills, medical documents, homework
✓ Works offline once installed
✓ No account, no tracking, nothing to leak

What it reads best — honestly

OCR is powerful, but it is not magic. Here is exactly what to expect:

🟢 Excellent Screenshots, on-screen text, PDFs, clean printed documents.

🟡 Good Straight-on, well-lit photos of printed text — books, labels, signs.

🔴 Hard Handwriting, decorative fonts, tiny or blurry text, busy backgrounds.

Pro tip: for small on-screen text, zoom the page (Ctrl and +) before capturing — bigger pixels, better reading.

Free every day. Pro when you need more.

Free	Pro — $9.99, one-time
Right-click OCR + area capture	Everything in Free
10 recognitions per day	Unlimited recognitions
English recognition	100+ languages
Copied straight to your clipboard	Batch OCR + recognition history

Free and Pro use the same recognition engine — try Free on your images first, upgrade when it already works for you. One payment, yours forever, with a 30-day no-questions refund.

Questions people ask

Is it really free?: Yes — right-click OCR and area capture are free, 10 recognitions a day, forever. Pro removes the daily cap and adds batch and 100+ languages for a single $9.99 payment.
Does Pro read better than Free?: No — and that is deliberate. Free and Pro run the exact same engine, so you can fully test recognition quality on your own images before paying a cent. Pro removes the daily cap and adds batch, languages and history.
Can it read handwriting?: Mostly no, and we would rather tell you now than after you paid. Handwriting, decorative fonts and very blurry photos are genuinely hard for any OCR engine. Printed and on-screen text are its home turf.
Why is there no subscription?: Because recognition runs on your device, serving you costs us nothing per use — so charging you monthly would not be honest. Pay once, keep it forever.
Does it work on PDFs and videos?: Yes. Area capture (Alt+Shift+T) grabs text from anything visible on your screen — including PDF pages and paused videos.
What languages can it read?: English is included. Pro unlocks 100+ languages including Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hindi.
What if I buy Pro and regret it?: Email [email protected] within 30 days and we refund you, no questions asked.

About Copy Text from Image

Copy Text from Image is a Chrome extension by MiniWebtool that pulls text out of anything you can see in your browser. Right-click an image, or press Alt+Shift+T and drag over any part of the screen — the text is recognized by the open-source Tesseract engine running entirely on your device, then copied to your clipboard. Nothing is ever uploaded. It reads printed and on-screen text best (screenshots, PDFs, clean documents); handwriting and decorative fonts are genuinely hard for any OCR. The core features are free every day; Pro removes the daily cap and adds batch recognition and 100+ languages for a single one-time payment — no subscription, no data collection.

Copy Text from Image