Free browser utilities
Read the text out of an image, write Markdown with a live preview, edit plain text, or keep a scratchpad that survives a refresh. All of it runs in the page, and none of it is uploaded.
Your text stays yours
Everything here runs in the page. The image you run OCR on, the notes you jot down and the draft you are writing are never uploaded.
Opens instantly
No account, no install, no editor to configure. Useful precisely when you are on a machine that is not yours.
Nothing is metered
There is no server counting what you do, so there is no limit on how much you write or how many images you read.
Where does my work go?
The editors and the notepad save what you type into your browser’s local storage, on the device you are using. That is what makes a refresh harmless. It is also the whole extent of it: nothing is synced, nothing is backed up, and clearing your browsing data removes it. Every tool here has a download button, and for anything you actually need to keep, that is the one to use.
The one network request anywhere in this section is the English language data for OCR, which is several megabytes, is fetched once from the Tesseract project, and contains nothing about your image.
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