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Screenshot2Text converts images, screenshots, and PDFs into selectable text using optical character recognition that runs in your browser. You pick a file, recognition reads the pixels on your device, and the result appears in an editable box you can copy or download.

Supported inputs include PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, BMP, and PDF. PDF pages are drawn in the same tab before they are read. Recognition uses open-source Tesseract software compiled for the browser. The first run may fetch small public support files (the engine, language data, and a page renderer when needed). Those requests ask for named assets. They do not include your image, your PDF, or the extracted text.

We do not upload your file for recognition. We do not keep a server-side copy of the picture or the transcript. Closing or reloading the tab clears the working copy in memory.

There is no account and nothing to install. You do not need to register, sign in, or verify an email to use any part of the tool. There is no file history on our side, because we never held one.

Product questions go to email only. See the contact section below and the contact page for what to include.

Results are provided as-is. OCR is a best-effort read of pixels, not a guaranteed transcript. We do not promise perfect recognition. Text can come back incomplete, scrambled, or wrong.

Common failure modes include handwriting and cursive notes, low contrast or blurry photos, glare on a photographed monitor, tilted or skewed pages, very small UI type, decorative fonts, stamps over text, faded photocopies, and dense multi-column layouts that confuse reading order. Dark interfaces (light text on a dark panel) are harder for classic OCR pipelines; the tool may flip dark regions before a read, but the source still has to be sharp.

Check the output in the editable box before you rely on it. Fix obvious misreads yourself. Do not use this tool as the only source of truth for anything legal, medical, financial, or otherwise consequential. Local recognition also leans on your device: a handful of ordinary screenshots is the intended use. Dozens of huge camera originals may slow or stall the tab.

You are responsible for the files you process here and for what you do with the text you get back. Only use files you have the right to use. Processing a file on this site does not give you rights you did not already have.

Do not use the tool or its output to break the law, to infringe copyright, to violate someone else's privacy, to defeat a security or access control, or to process material you are not allowed to hold. Do not try to overload, scrape, reverse engineer, or otherwise interfere with the site or the ads on it.

Do not treat the converter as a way to copy content you are not allowed to use. The guides and landing pages are for honest everyday jobs such as error dialogs, terminal output, and documents you already own or are permitted to handle.

Every feature is free and stays free. There are no payments, no subscriptions, and no trials. Advertising pays for hosting and keeps the tool available without charging per file.

Advertising runs through Google AdSense. Live ad units sit in the page chrome on the homepage converter. Ads are separate from recognition: ad code does not receive your image, your PDF, or the text the tool extracted. Nothing about your file is used to choose an ad.

Details on cookies, consent choices, and what advertising vendors may collect are on the privacy page. If an ad unit breaks the drop zone or covers the copy box on your viewport, say so on contact with the page URL and device details.

Your files and the text extracted from them stay yours. We do not receive them, so we claim nothing over them. The site itself, its copy, and its design belong to the operator. The tool is built on open-source software that remains under its own licenses.

The site is provided without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not promise that recognition will be accurate, that the site will always be available, or that it will fit a particular purpose of yours. Best-effort OCR is not a substitute for a human proofread when the words matter.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost or missed text, lost data, lost time, or any damage that follows from using this site or acting on its output. You use the tool at your own discretion and risk.

Because recognition never leaves your tab, we also cannot recover a file or transcript from a closed browser, a cleared cache, or a device you no longer have. There is nothing on our side to look up.

Features may change, and the site may be slow or offline during maintenance, outages, or hosting problems. We may add, alter, or remove parts of the tool without notice. This is a free utility, so there is no uptime commitment attached to it.

We may also update these terms. The date at the top shows the last revision, and continued use after a change means the current version applies.

Questions about these terms or the site go to hello@screenshot2text.com. That is the only support inbox. There is no phone line, live chat, or in-app ticket form.

Please do not attach screenshots, photos, or PDFs. Emailing a file creates a copy outside your browser, which undercuts the local-OCR design, and we cannot re-run recognition on your behalf. Describe the page URL, what went wrong, the browser and device, and the language you selected. More detail lives on the contact page.

Screenshot2Text, also known as SnapOCR, is operated by Tiny Utility Lab, a small independent maker of free browser utilities. The same address above is listed on the contact, about, and privacy pages.