Screenshot to Text

In short The specific frustration this solves is text you can SEE but cannot select: an error dialog, a PDF viewer that blocks copying, a video frame, a chat screenshot someone sent you, or an application that renders its interface as images. Screenshot it and the characters come back as text you can paste, search and correct. Screenshots are the easiest possible input for character recognition and usually give near-perfect results, because they are rendered text rather than photographed text — no lens blur, no perspective, no uneven lighting, and the pixels sit exactly where the font put them. That is the opposite of a photograph of a page, and it is why this framing of the tool is the one that just works. Two practical notes. Capture at your display's native resolution rather than scaling the image down before feeding it in, since downscaling destroys exactly the fine detail the recogniser needs. And crop tightly to the text: window chrome, icons and toolbars produce spurious characters that are more annoying to clean up than the text was to retype. Everything runs in your own browser, so the screenshot — which may well contain an account number or a private conversation — never leaves your device.