Text Extractor

Pull plain text from documents, images (via OCR), or code files.

About OCR Technology

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology converts different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera into editable and searchable data.

Common Uses:
  • Digitizing printed documents
  • Automating data entry from forms
  • Extracting text from screenshots
  • Processing business cards
Limitations:

Note: This is a simulation. For production use, consider:

  • Google Cloud Vision API
  • Amazon Textract
  • Tesseract.js (open source)
  • Microsoft Azure Computer Vision

How to Use

  • Upload a file.
  • Wait for extraction.
  • Copy or download the text.

Features

  • OCR support
  • Plain text output
  • Multiple formats

Benefits

  • Recover editable text
  • No manual retyping
  • Broad file support

Use Cases

  • Scanning printed documents
  • Extracting code comments
  • Reusing old PDFs

Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers about this tool.

Does it keep formatting?

It extracts raw text; formatting may be lost.

Which image formats work for OCR?

JPG and PNG with clear text yield best results.