OCR Screenshot & Image — Image2Text

About

Image2Text is a privacy-first, offline-first Chrome extension designed to extract text from screenshots, YouTube videos, images, PDFs, and web pages in under 5 seconds. 

Whether you need to copy code from a YouTube programming tutorial, extract notes from an educational video lecture, or pull text from a scanned PDF document, Image2Text performs highly accurate OCR (Optical Character Recognition) entirely on your local machine. No servers, no tracking, and no cloud uploads are required.

🚀 KEY FEATURES:
• Offline OCR Engine: Powered by Tesseract.js, all processing occurs locally in your browser. Your data never leaves your device.
• Multi-Format Support: Extract text from screenshots, YouTube videos, online video frames, uploaded images (PNG, JPG, WEBP, BMP), and multi-page PDFs.
• Crop & Grab (Ctrl+Shift+X): Take a partial screenshot of any web page or video player to immediately extract and copy the text inside it.
• Premium Translation: Translate extracted OCR text into 22 supported languages, including major Indian languages (Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu).
• Offline History: Search, manage, copy, or export your scanned text history anytime without needing an internet connection.
• Fully Custom UI: Modern, elegant interface featuring dark mode support and responsive design.

🎯 WHO IS IT FOR?
• Developers & Students: Extract code snippets directly from YouTube coding videos, tutorials, mockups, or wireframes.
• Researchers: Copy text from scanned PDF textbooks, online articles, slides, or digital documents for note-taking.
• Office Professionals: Digitize invoices, tables, receipts, or email screenshots into editable text.

🌐 SUPPORTED OCR LANGUAGES:
English, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu.

🔒 PRIVACY-FIRST & SECURE:
Most OCR tools force you to upload sensitive documents to cloud servers, risking your data security. Image2Text runs 100% offline. Zero tracking, zero data collection, and zero network calls for OCR. Perfect for enterprise environments and handling confidential files.