SnapText OCR - Image to Text

Extract text from any image on screen. Right-click images, select screen areas, or paste from clipboard.

SnapText OCR turns any image into selectable, copyable text — instantly, privately, right in your browser. No accounts. No cloud uploads. No subscriptions. Every scan runs entirely on your device using Tesseract.js, the same battle-tested OCR engine trusted by developers worldwide. ✦ HOW IT WORKS Three ways to grab text from any image: ① Right-click any image → "Extract Text with SnapText" See a photo, screenshot, infographic, or meme with text? Right-click and choose SnapText from the context menu. Done. ② Select Area Click the SnapText icon in your toolbar, then hit "Select Area." Draw a box over any part of your screen — a chart, a PDF embedded in a webpage, a video frame, anything. SnapText captures that region and extracts the text. ③ Paste from Clipboard Copied a screenshot? Hit "Paste Image" (or Ctrl+V in the popup) and SnapText reads whatever's on your clipboard. ✦ FEATURES ◉ Right-Click OCR — Works on any image on any webpage. Just right-click → extract. ◉ Area Selection Tool — Draw a box over any part of the visible page. Perfect for embedded PDFs, charts, code snippets in screenshots, or images that can't be right-clicked. ◉ Clipboard OCR — Paste screenshots or images directly into the popup for instant extraction. ◉ One-Click Copy — Extracted text goes to your clipboard with one click. ◉ Scan History — Your last 20 extractions are saved locally so you can revisit or re-copy without re-scanning. ◉ Dark Mode — Toggle between light and dark themes. SnapText remembers your preference. ◉ Zero Network Requests — SnapText never phones home. All processing happens in your browser via Tesseract.js WebAssembly — no data leaves your device. ◉ No Account Required — Install and go. No sign-up, no login, no email. ✦ PERFECT FOR • Researchers copying quotes from paper scans or image-based PDFs • Developers grabbing error messages from screenshots • Students transcribing lecture slides or photos • Professionals extracting data from charts, infographics, or reports • Anyone who's ever retyped text they could clearly see on screen ✦ PRIVACY FIRST — ALWAYS Your images and text never leave your browser. Period. • No analytics • No tracking pixels • No external API calls • No cloud storage • History stays in Chrome's local storage on your machine only ✦ PRO VERSION — COMING SOON The free version covers everything most users need. A Pro upgrade is in development: • Multi-language OCR (Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and more) • Bulk image processing • PDF page scanning • Extended history with search • Export to TXT / Markdown / CSV • Keyboard shortcuts The free tier will always remain free. ✦ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED SnapText requests only what it needs: • activeTab — to capture the visible area when you use Select Area • contextMenus — to add "Extract Text with SnapText" to the right-click menu • storage — to save your history and theme preference locally • clipboardRead — to read images you paste into the popup No broad host permissions, no browsing history, nothing beyond this minimal set. Extract text. Stay private. SnapText.