Turn a photo, screenshot or scanned page back into real, editable text. pixelpix runs the Tesseract OCR engine in your browser via WebAssembly, so the image is read entirely on your own device — nothing is uploaded anywhere.
One click reads the whole image; then copy the result to your clipboard or save it as a .txt file. The image itself is never modified.
What reads well — and what doesn't
OCR is excellent on printed text: screenshots, documents, book pages, signs, receipts. It struggles with handwriting, heavily stylised fonts, and tiny or blurry text. For the best results use a sharp, straight-on image with good contrast — and if the text is small within a larger photo, crop in on it first (the Crop tool is one click away in the same rail).
Private by construction
Most image-to-text sites upload your image to a server, which matters when the image is a contract, an ID or a private message. pixelpix compiles Tesseract — the same open-source OCR engine behind countless scanning apps — to WebAssembly and runs it locally, so the image never leaves your machine. A confidence score tells you honestly how sure the engine is about what it read.
How it works
Drop an image — a screenshot, a photo of a document, a scan.
Hit extract text. The ~9 MB reading engine downloads once, then works offline.
Copy the recognized text or download it as a .txt file.
Like every pixelpix tool, this runs 100% in your browser: your file is never uploaded to a server, never leaves your device, and works even offline once the page has loaded.
Frequently asked questions
Is the extracted text accurate?
On clean printed text and screenshots, very. The tool shows a confidence score with every read; if it's low, the result needs a proof-read. Handwriting recognition is weak — that's a limitation of OCR generally, stated honestly rather than hidden.
Which languages are supported?
English, currently. The engine itself supports many languages, so more may come — each adds a language data file to download.
Is my image uploaded for OCR?
No. The OCR engine runs in your browser via WebAssembly. After the one-time engine download it even works offline.