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About Image OCR Online
This tool performs Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on an image, extracting any visible text into editable, searchable, copyable form. Upload a scanned document, photograph of a sign, screenshot of an article, or any image with text, and the tool returns the recognized characters.
OCR is essential for digitizing paper documents, extracting quotes from photographed pages, capturing text from images where you don't have access to the original source, or making image archives searchable.
Accuracy depends on image quality, font clarity, and language. Clean printed text in English typically achieves 95%+ accuracy. Handwriting, low-contrast scans, decorative fonts, and unusual languages can produce more errors. Multi-language support is included for major writing systems.
How to use this tool
How to inspect an image's pixel statistics
Upload the image
Drop a JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, GIF, or TIFF into the Image field. The same input that other image tools take.
What this tool actually does
Server-side OCR is NOT enabled in this build. The handler ignores text recognition entirely — it returns Sharp metadata plus per-channel mean statistics so you can sanity-check the image you uploaded.
Press Run
Output includes width, height, format, channels, hasAlpha, density, colour space, isOpaque, and dominantChannelMeans (the mean R/G/B/A from sharp.stats()). The note explains where to go for real OCR.
Get real OCR elsewhere
For actual text extraction, use your OS screenshot-to-text feature, Google Lens / Translate, or a desktop OCR app (Tesseract, ABBYY). This tool is metadata-only by design.