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QuickImageToText: Free Online OCR Tool

My own OCR web app that turns images, PDFs and documents into editable text in the browser, with no upload and no sign-up, in 8 languages.

Overview

QuickImageToText extracts text from photos, screenshots, scans and handwritten notes. Recognition runs client-side with Tesseract.js, so images never leave the user's device and nothing is stored on a server.

I designed, built and launched it as a personal product, and I handle its SEO myself: localised URLs and hreflang in eight languages, structured data, and content written for both search engines and AI answer engines. It is live and grows through organic search.

Key features

  • Client-side OCR: images are never uploaded
  • Text recognition in 14 languages
  • Batch processing of up to 20 images
  • PDF-to-text and document OCR tools
  • Site localised into 8 languages with hreflang
  • QuickImageToText homepage with file upload area, OCR language picker and paste-from-clipboard option
  • OCR result: extracted text ready to copy or download

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