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Drop one PNG or two hundred. Batch conversion is not a paid feature here.
Convert PNG to TXT
Text is trapped in a screenshot, a scanned page or a photo of a slide, and retyping it is not an option.
Runs on your deviceFreeNo sign-upBatch supported
Scans with no text layer are read with OCR, on your device. The first run downloads the recognition engine once, then works offline.
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What actually changes
PNG and TXT are not the same picture in two wrappers.
This is not a format change, it is recognition. Tesseract in WebAssembly segments the image into lines and characters and outputs plain text. Layout, fonts, colour and images are discarded; only characters remain.
Worth knowing first
OCR output always needs proofreading, and it is worst exactly where it looks most confident: zero against capital O, one against lowercase l, and column boundaries. Our engine reports its confidence per run so you know how hard to check.
Questions
PNG to TXT, answered
Does the image get uploaded to an OCR service?
No. The recogniser, its WebAssembly core and the language data are all served from our own origin and run in your browser. It works offline once cached.
What resolution does OCR need?
Roughly 300 DPI, or text about 20 pixels tall. Below that the accuracy falls off sharply.
Can it read handwriting?
No. Tesseract is trained on printed type. Handwriting needs a different class of model entirely.
How to convert PNG to TXT
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Plain Text is lossless, so nothing is thrown away in the conversion.
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Instant, because the file never went anywhere. Nothing expires, since nothing was stored.