# Local OCR

> Extract text from images directly in your browser. Your data never leaves your computer. Supports multiple languages.

- Open in browser: https://pockettoolbox.org/en/ocr-tool
- Runs entirely in your browser; files and input are never uploaded.

## How it works

Use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract text from photos or scans directly in the browser.

Select the image and set the language to be recognized. Click "Recognize Text", and the tool will analyze the image and display the recognized text in a text box. You can copy the text or save it as a TXT file. Your images remain private on your system.

Uses Tesseract.js as a WebAssembly module directly in the browser. Language training data is loaded client-side for image preprocessing, binarization, and character recognition.

## Popular tasks

- [Copy Text from an Image](https://pockettoolbox.org/en/image-to-text)

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