SnapText OCR - Image to Text

About

SnapText OCR turns any image into selectable, copyable text — instantly, privately, right in your browser.

No accounts. No cloud uploads. No subscriptions. Every scan runs entirely on your device using Tesseract.js, the same battle-tested OCR engine trusted by developers worldwide.


✦ HOW IT WORKS

Three ways to grab text from any image:

① Right-click any image → "Extract Text with SnapText"
See a photo, screenshot, infographic, or meme with text? Right-click and choose SnapText from the context menu. Done.

② Select Area
Click the SnapText icon in your toolbar, then hit "Select Area." Draw a box over any part of your screen — a chart, a PDF embedded in a webpage, a video frame, anything. SnapText captures that region and extracts the text.

③ Paste from Clipboard
Copied a screenshot? Hit "Paste Image" (or Ctrl+V in the popup) and SnapText reads whatever's on your clipboard.


✦ FEATURES

◉ Right-Click OCR — Works on any image on any webpage. Just right-click → extract.

◉ Area Selection Tool — Draw a box over any part of the visible page. Perfect for embedded PDFs, charts, code snippets in screenshots, or images that can't be right-clicked.

◉ Clipboard OCR — Paste screenshots or images directly into the popup for instant extraction.

◉ One-Click Copy — Extracted text goes to your clipboard with one click.

◉ Scan History — Your last 20 extractions are saved locally so you can revisit or re-copy without re-scanning.

◉ Dark Mode — Toggle between light and dark themes. SnapText remembers your preference.

◉ Zero Network Requests — SnapText never phones home. All processing happens in your browser via Tesseract.js WebAssembly — no data leaves your device.

◉ No Account Required — Install and go. No sign-up, no login, no email.


✦ PERFECT FOR

• Researchers copying quotes from paper scans or image-based PDFs
• Developers grabbing error messages from screenshots
• Students transcribing lecture slides or photos
• Professionals extracting data from charts, infographics, or reports
• Anyone who's ever retyped text they could clearly see on screen


✦ PRIVACY FIRST — ALWAYS

Your images and text never leave your browser. Period.

• No analytics
• No tracking pixels
• No external API calls
• No cloud storage
• History stays in Chrome's local storage on your machine only


✦ PRO VERSION — COMING SOON

The free version covers everything most users need. A Pro upgrade is in development:

• Multi-language OCR (Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and more)
• Bulk image processing
• PDF page scanning
• Extended history with search
• Export to TXT / Markdown / CSV
• Keyboard shortcuts

The free tier will always remain free.


✦ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED

SnapText requests only what it needs:

• activeTab — to capture the visible area when you use Select Area
• contextMenus — to add "Extract Text with SnapText" to the right-click menu
• storage — to save your history and theme preference locally
• clipboardRead — to read images you paste into the popup

No broad host permissions, no browsing history, nothing beyond this minimal set.


Extract text. Stay private. SnapText.