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Copy text from any image

TextPic turns text in images, screenshots and any part of a web page into real text you can select and copy. It works on your computer, nothing is uploaded.

See how it works Coming soon to the Chrome Web Store
Screenshot of meeting notes with a phone number and an email address
Try it: select text on this picture and press Ctrl+C.

Text from anything you can see

One tool for pictures on websites, video frames, other programs and screenshots.

Images on any website

Right-click a picture and choose “Recognize text in image”. A transparent text layer appears right on top of it.

Images on any website

Any part of a page

Press Ctrl+Shift+0 and drag a frame over a video, a chart, a canvas or a background.

Ctrl+Shift+0

Any part of a page

Tabs, windows and the screen

Press Ctrl+Shift+9 to take a snapshot of any Chrome tab, another program's window or the whole screen.

Ctrl+Shift+9Ctrl+V

Tabs, windows and the screen

100+ languages at once

Choose several languages and TextPic reads mixed text without switching. English and Russian work offline out of the box.

  • English
  • Русский
  • Español
  • Deutsch
  • Français
  • Português
  • Italiano
  • Українська
  • Polski
  • Türkçe
  • العربية
  • हिन्दी
  • বাংলা
  • 日本語
  • 中文
  • 한국어
  • Tiếng Việt
  • ไทย
  • Bahasa Indonesia
  • Nederlands
  • Čeština
  • Svenska
  • Ελληνικά
  • עברית
  • +100

Your images stay on your computer

TextPic recognizes text with the open-source Tesseract engine that runs inside your browser.

  • No uploads to any server
  • No account or sign-in
  • No analytics and no ads
  • English and Russian work offline
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Screenshots from the clipboard

Paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V or drop an image file. The text is ready in a few seconds.

Win+Shift+SCtrl+V

How it works

  1. Add TextPic to Chrome

    Install it from the Chrome Web Store in one click.

  2. Right-click an image

    Choose “Recognize text in image”, or press Ctrl+Shift+0 and select any area of the page.

  3. Select and copy

    Select words right on the picture and press Ctrl+C, or click “Copy all”.

Questions and answers

Is TextPic free?

Yes. TextPic is free, has no ads and needs no account.

Are my images uploaded anywhere?

No. Text is recognized by the Tesseract engine inside your browser. Images and recognized text stay on your computer.

Which languages does it support?

More than 100, including English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Hindi. English and Russian are built in. Other languages are downloaded once (2–10 MB), the first time you use them, and then work offline.

Can it read text outside the browser?

Yes. Press Ctrl+Shift+9 to take a snapshot of another program's window or the whole screen. You can also paste any screenshot with Ctrl+V on the TextPic page.

Why does Chrome say that TextPic can “read and change all your data on all websites”?

TextPic needs this to download the original image file in full resolution from the website that hosts it. It reads only the images you choose to recognize and does not collect or change anything.

What does it recognize best?

Screenshots, scans and printed text. Handwriting and very decorative fonts are recognized poorly.

Can I change the keyboard shortcuts?

Yes. Open chrome://extensions/shortcuts and set the keys you like.

Stop retyping text from pictures

Add TextPic to Chrome and copy text from any image in seconds.

Coming soon to the Chrome Web Store