When you only have a screenshot — of an error message, a chart, a slide, a scanned page — you can't paste pixels into a text-only chat. Screenshot to Text runs OCR right in your browser via Tesseract and gives you selectable, copyable text. No upload, no account, no API key.
How to use it
- 1.
Drop the image
Supports PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, BMP, and TIFF. Multi-line screenshots and full-page captures both work.
- 2.
Wait for OCR
First run downloads a ~10 MB language model (cached afterwards). Subsequent images are much faster.
- 3.
Use the extracted text
Copy the result, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude, and ask follow-up questions about content the model couldn't see directly.
When OCR beats vision models
Multimodal models can read images, but for dense text — code, contracts, tables — OCR is often more accurate, much faster, and uses no API quota. It's also the only way to feed image-only content into text-only models or older API tiers.
Best for
- Error messages from screenshots
- Slides and presentation captures
- Text in screenshots of articles or tweets
- Quickly extracting code from a screenshot