How to Quickly Extract Text from Photos and Screenshots Online

Have you ever needed to copy text from a screenshot of a website, a scanned PDF, or a photo of a document? Typing it manually is tedious and slow. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) solves this.

What is Image OCR?

OCR algorithms analyze shapes of letters on an image and convert them into standard digital text characters. On FormatShift, we run the powerful **Tesseract.js** engine completely on the client side, requiring no cloud uploads.

How to Extract Text on FormatShift

1. Go to the Image OCR Tool.
2. Upload your screenshot or document photo.
3. Select the language (Russian, English, or both).
4. Click "Extract Text". The browser will parse the text locally.
5. Copy the result, or download it as a Word (.docx) or text (.txt) document.