Screenshot to Text
Copy text out of any screenshot. No account, no email.
Drop an image to read it
PNG, JPG, WEBP — up to 3 MB. Your file is read on our servers in Frankfurt and deleted within the hour.
VisionParse copies text out of screenshots free in your browser, with no account and no email required.
Screenshots were the fastest input we measured, at 0.39 seconds against 0.52 for the same content as a scanned page, because screen text is already crisp and evenly lit. The risk with screenshots is size: interface text is small, and accuracy falls below 400 pixels of width.
What this tool does, in numbers.
- SPEED
A screenshot read in 0.39 seconds, the fastest of every input format we measured.
- ACCURACY
Screen-rendered text needs no deskewing, so it reads faster than a photographed page.
- LIMIT
Interface text below 400 pixels of image width dropped to 56.8% accuracy in our sweep.
- ACCESS
The screenshot to text tool requires no account, no email address and no payment card.
- LANGUAGES
VisionParse recognises 161 languages in screenshots, including Arabic, Sinhala and Tamil.
- RETENTION
VisionParse deletes free-tool screenshots one hour after conversion.
Where the 0.39 s comes from.
Every figure on this page traces to a dated run on hardware we name. Nothing here is a vendor estimate.
Measured 2026-08-01
- Claim
- A screenshot-style image read in 0.39 s, against 0.52 s for the same content as a scanned page.
- Method
- VisionParse standard recognition tier, single-threaded. Full methodology.
- Sample
- The synthetic invoice rendered twice: once as a flat-ground screenshot with anti-aliased interface text, once as a scanned page. Both read through the production pipeline.
- Measured
2026-08-01on Contabo Cloud VPS 8 — 8 vCPU AMD EPYC, 24 GB RAM, Ubuntu 24.04.4- Limitations
- Dark-mode screenshots were not part of this measurement, and light-on-dark text is a known weak case. A single synthetic document per variant is a small sample and is not a substitute for a corpus. These figures describe format behaviour, not general accuracy. A 500-document corpus run is scheduled and will supersede them.
- Contact
- VisionParse@senithu.lk
What this tool gets wrong
Screenshots are the easiest input we measured. At 0.39 seconds a screenshot read faster than the same content as a scanned page at 0.52 seconds. Screen text is evenly lit, perfectly square, and needs no deskewing.
Interface text is often too small. A screenshot taken on a low-resolution display, or cropped tightly, can fall under the 400-pixel width where accuracy drops to 56.8%. Capture at full resolution and do not scale the image down before uploading.
Dark-mode screenshots are unmeasured. Our measurement used light-background screenshots only. Light text on a dark ground is a known weak case for optical recognition and we have not yet quantified it, so we do not publish a number for it.
Three steps, no account.
Drop your screenshot
Drag the image onto the workbench, or choose it from your device. Nothing leaves your device until you drop it.
No deskewing needed
Screen captures are already square and evenly lit, so recognition runs directly and finishes faster than a photograph.
Take the text
Text appears with a confidence score. Copy it or download a .txt; the file is deleted within the hour.
What this tool accepts.
| Property | Free tool |
|---|---|
| Input formats | PNG, JPG, WEBP |
| Output | Plain text, UTF-8 |
| Typical speed | 0.39 s per screenshot |
| Recommended minimum width | 550 px across the text area |
| Maximum file size | 3 MB |
| Rate limit | 5 files per hour, per IP address |
| Languages | 161 |
| File retention | Deleted 1 hour after conversion |
| Processing location | Frankfurt, Germany |
When to use the API instead.
This page converts one file now. To convert files from your own software, the same engine runs over HTTP from Starter upward.
# same engine, from your code curl -X POST https://api.visionparse.app/v1/ocr \ -H "x-api-key: $VISIONPARSE_KEY" \ -F "file=@image.jpg" → 202 { "jobId": "c0df8e2c…" }
Use the API when
You convert more than a handful of files, convert on a schedule, or need results inside another system. Batch, webhooks and bounding boxes are API-only.
Frequently asked
Why is a screenshot faster to read than a photo?
Screen text is evenly lit, perfectly square and free of focus blur, so no deskewing or heavy cleanup is needed. A screenshot read in 0.39 seconds against 0.52 seconds for the same content as a scanned page.
My screenshot came back with errors. Why?
Most often the image is too small. Interface text is fine at normal size, but a cropped or downscaled capture can fall below 400 pixels of width, where accuracy dropped to 56.8% in our sweep. Capture at full resolution and do not resize.
Does it work on dark-mode screenshots?
It often does, but we have not measured it, so we will not publish a number. Light text on a dark background is a known weak case for optical recognition.
Is the screenshot to text tool free?
Yes — 5 files an hour with no account, no email and no card. A free account raises the allowance to 100 pages a month.
Do you keep my screenshot?
Free-tool files are deleted one hour after conversion. Account uploads are deleted after 30 days, and no customer file is ever used to train models.