Textquill — Image to Text OCR & Screenshot Text Extractor

About

Turn any picture into text — without your picture ever leaving your computer.

Textquill runs OCR entirely on-device. There's no account to create, no server it talks to, and no upload step — your images and the words in them never touch the network. That makes it a safe choice for screenshots of private messages, confidential documents, work whiteboards, or anything else you'd rather not send to a cloud service.

★ NINE WAYS TO GET TEXT IN
Right-click any image on a webpage and choose "Extract text." Select just a region of a page with the area-select tool (Alt+Shift+S, or right-click → Select area). Capture the visible tab or stitch together a full scrolling page. Upload a file, drag & drop it, or paste (Ctrl+V) straight from your clipboard. Or hand it an image URL or a base64 data URL directly.

★ 16 LANGUAGES
English, Hindi, Nepali, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese, and Turkish — with a Fast mode and an Accurate mode (plus Auto, which picks the right one for the job) so you can trade speed for precision when text is small, dense, or stylized.

★ QR CODE DECODING
Point it at a QR code and get the decoded payload alongside any extracted text in the same pass.

★ SEARCHABLE HISTORY, KEPT ON YOUR DEVICE
Every scan is saved locally in your browser so you can search past results, star favorites, and revisit anything you've extracted before. Delete single entries or clear everything, any time — it's your data and it stays on your machine.

★ BUILT FOR READING, SHARING, AND EXPORTING
Have results read aloud with text-to-speech, copy with one click (or turn on auto-copy), switch to dark mode for late-night work, and export clean .txt or .md files for your notes.

★ WHO IT'S FOR
- Students digitizing notes, textbook pages, or lecture slides
- Developers grabbing text or config out of a screenshot instead of retyping it
- Researchers pulling quotes and figures out of scanned papers and articles
- Office and admin work — invoices, forms, business cards, and screenshots that need to become searchable, editable text

★ NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS
No account to create, no subscription, no usage limits, and no ads. Textquill keeps text extraction private and on your device — not a funnel to a paid upgrade.