Screen Text Extractor

About

Screen Text Extractor lets you capture and digitize text from any visible area on a webpage — instantly, privately, and without leaving the browser.

✨ KEY FEATURES

• Area Selection — Click "Select Area" or press Alt+Shift+E, then drag to highlight any region
• Powerful OCR — Tesseract.js processes your text locally; no cloud API needed
• Auto Upscaling — Small text is automatically enlarged before processing for higher accuracy
• Image Enhancement — Automatic contrast and brightness adjustment for difficult text
• Copy & Download — Copy result to clipboard or save as a .txt file

📋 EXTRACTION HISTORY

• Every extraction is saved automatically to local browser storage
• Search past extractions by content or date (today, yesterday, week, month)
• Pin important extractions to keep them at the top
• Delete individual items or clear all at once
• Export your full history as a JSON backup file
• Configure auto-delete rules and maximum history size

🎯 PERFECT FOR

- Text in images, screenshots, and infographics
- Paused video frames
- PDFs and e-books displayed in the browser
- Quotes, citations, and product descriptions
- Digitizing handwritten notes from photos

🔒 100% PRIVATE

All processing happens inside your browser. Nothing is sent to any server. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics — your data stays on your device.

Works completely offline. No installation of extra software required.