Paste a screenshot, copy the text

A screen capture is not a photograph. It has flat backgrounds, hard edges and no sensor noise, so the contrast stretching and thresholding that rescue a phone photo would only degrade it. OCR2text detects this from the image itself — colour count, edge sharpness, background flatness — and leaves a clean capture alone.

Light text on a dark background is the one case where a screenshot does need work. That gets inverted automatically, and Auto enhance tells you it did so.

A cropped screenshot can be too small for the recogniser to see letter shapes properly. Where the image is under about 700 pixels on its longest edge, OCR2text upscales it before recognition rather than handing over a handful of pixels per character.

Most of the time a screenshot contains one thing you actually want — an order number, a stack trace, an address. Extract selection lets you drag a box around it and read only that region, which is both faster and more accurate than recognising the whole screen.