PickText OCR — Copy Text from Images by OneClickPDF

Extract text from any image or screenshot. Works offline. Your images never leave your device.

Extract text from any image, screenshot, or region on any webpage — instantly, privately, and completely offline. OneClickPDF OCR Reader uses Tesseract.js WebAssembly to run OCR entirely in your browser. No images are uploaded to any server. Ever. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO USE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Click the extension icon → drop or browse for an image → get text • Right-click any image on a webpage → "Extract text from image" • Right-click a page → "Screenshot & OCR this page" • Right-click a page → "OCR selected region" → draw a rectangle around text ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ 4 ways to capture text Upload an image, right-click any image on a page, screenshot the visible tab, or draw a region to OCR just part of a page. ✦ 16 languages English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Turkish. English is bundled. Other languages download automatically on first use. ✦ Auto language detection Not sure what language the image is in? Hit "Auto" and the extension detects the script for you. ✦ Image preprocessing Toggle grayscale, contrast stretching, or Otsu binarization to improve OCR accuracy on scanned documents, photos, or low-contrast images. ✦ Table detection & CSV export Automatically detects table structures in OCR results. Export detected tables as CSV with one click. ✦ Confidence scoring See word-level confidence highlighted in green (high), yellow (medium), or red (low). Overall confidence displayed as a badge. ✦ OCR history Your last results are saved locally. Recall, copy, or delete them anytime. Configurable limit (10–100 entries). ✦ Editable results Edit the recognized text directly in the results panel before copying. ✦ Copy to clipboard One-click copy. That's it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • All OCR processing runs locally using WebAssembly. No images or text are sent to any server. • Language packs (other than English) are downloaded from jsDelivr CDN on first use and cached locally. • History and settings are stored in chrome.storage.local on your device only. • No analytics. No tracking. No ads. • The extension contains links to oneclickpdf.net but does not transmit any data to our servers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • activeTab — capture the current tab for screenshot OCR • contextMenus — add right-click menu items • storage — save your settings and OCR history locally • offscreen — run Tesseract.js WASM in a hidden document (Chrome requires this for Canvas/WASM) • clipboardWrite — copy results to your clipboard • scripting — inject the region selection overlay when you choose "OCR selected region" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUPPORTED FORMATS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, GIF ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Built by the team behind OneClickPDF (oneclickpdf.net) — 59 free browser-based PDF tools. Same privacy-first philosophy: your files stay on your device. Need PDF OCR or searchable PDFs? Try our full OCR tool at oneclickpdf.net/tools/ocr Questions or feedback? dev.mirzaanees@gmail.com