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OCR2text

Camera to text

Photograph a page, get the text

The rear camera on a phone, the built-in webcam on a laptop, or an external camera — the same workspace, with document framing, torch control and multi-page capture.

How it goes

  1. 1

    Open the camera

    Permission is only requested when you choose the camera, never before.

  2. 2

    Frame the page

    Guides show the capture area. Turn the torch on where the device supports it.

  3. 3

    Add pages

    Capture, then keep going — a letter, a form, a chapter.

  4. 4

    Flatten and clean

    Drag the corners onto the page and it is warped back into a rectangle.

  5. 5

    Recognise and export

    All pages at once, combined in the order you captured them.

On a laptop, use the laptop

Plenty of OCR sites tell desktop visitors to go and find their phone. OCR2text opens your webcam instead, with a large preview and a device picker when more than one camera is connected. It is genuinely useful for a page held up in front of the screen, a book, or a label on a box.

Perspective correction is the feature that matters

A page photographed at an angle produces text lines that fan across the frame, and recognisers cope badly with that. Flatten page lets you put four handles on the page corners; OCR2text solves the homography and warps it back to a rectangle, as though it had been scanned flat.

Where the page sits on a darker surface, the corners are detected for you. When the detection is not convincing, OCR2text says so and hands you the handles rather than quietly applying a bad guess.

If the camera is blocked

A denied permission is not a dead end here. You are offered upload and paste immediately, and everything after that point behaves identically. Camera access can be re-granted from your browser’s address bar at any time.

Questions

Does OCR2text record video?+
No. The preview is live in the page, nothing is recorded, and only the frame you capture is kept — in memory, in your tab.
Can I capture several pages in one go?+
Yes. Use it and photograph another page keeps the camera open, and the page rail keeps them in order.
Is there a torch?+
On devices whose browser exposes torch control, yes — usually Android Chrome. It appears only when it will actually work.
Do I need to install an app?+
No, but you can. OCR2text installs to your home screen or desktop as a PWA and then works offline.

Extract text from something

No account, no upload, no waiting for a server. Open the workspace and drop a page in.

Open the camera