PickText OCR — Copy Text from Images by OneClickPDF

About

Extract text from any image, screenshot, or region on any webpage — instantly, privately, and completely offline.

OneClickPDF OCR Reader uses Tesseract.js WebAssembly to run OCR entirely in your browser. No images are uploaded to any server. Ever.

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HOW TO USE
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• Click the extension icon → drop or browse for an image → get text
• Right-click any image on a webpage → "Extract text from image"
• Right-click a page → "Screenshot & OCR this page"
• Right-click a page → "OCR selected region" → draw a rectangle around text

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FEATURES
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✦ 4 ways to capture text
  Upload an image, right-click any image on a page, screenshot the visible tab, or draw a region to OCR just part of a page.

✦ 16 languages
  English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Turkish.
  English is bundled. Other languages download automatically on first use.

✦ Auto language detection
  Not sure what language the image is in? Hit "Auto" and the extension detects the script for you.

✦ Image preprocessing
  Toggle grayscale, contrast stretching, or Otsu binarization to improve OCR accuracy on scanned documents, photos, or low-contrast images.

✦ Table detection & CSV export
  Automatically detects table structures in OCR results. Export detected tables as CSV with one click.

✦ Confidence scoring
  See word-level confidence highlighted in green (high), yellow (medium), or red (low). Overall confidence displayed as a badge.

✦ OCR history
  Your last results are saved locally. Recall, copy, or delete them anytime. Configurable limit (10–100 entries).

✦ Editable results
  Edit the recognized text directly in the results panel before copying.

✦ Copy to clipboard
  One-click copy. That's it.

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PRIVACY
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• All OCR processing runs locally using WebAssembly. No images or text are sent to any server.
• Language packs (other than English) are downloaded from jsDelivr CDN on first use and cached locally.
• History and settings are stored in chrome.storage.local on your device only.
• No analytics. No tracking. No ads.
• The extension contains links to oneclickpdf.net but does not transmit any data to our servers.

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PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED
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• activeTab — capture the current tab for screenshot OCR
• contextMenus — add right-click menu items
• storage — save your settings and OCR history locally
• offscreen — run Tesseract.js WASM in a hidden document (Chrome requires this for Canvas/WASM)
• clipboardWrite — copy results to your clipboard
• scripting — inject the region selection overlay when you choose "OCR selected region"

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SUPPORTED FORMATS
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JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, GIF

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ABOUT
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Built by the team behind OneClickPDF (oneclickpdf.net) — 59 free browser-based PDF tools. Same privacy-first philosophy: your files stay on your device.

Need PDF OCR or searchable PDFs? Try our full OCR tool at oneclickpdf.net/tools/ocr

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