Image to Text Pixels in. Text out.

What it actually does

How it works

1. Open morph.cool/ocr in any modern browser. No install, no account, no card.
2. Drop a JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, BMP, or screenshot. Multi-page scans accepted.
3. Pick the language (defaults to English). First run downloads the language data; cached after that.
4. Tesseract runs in your tab via WebAssembly. Watch the progress bar; the text appears in a side panel.
5. Copy to clipboard or save as TXT or DOCX. The image and text stay on your device.

Why people stop uploading scans

Receipts, ID cards, medical forms, and contracts are exactly the kind of document people most need OCR for — and they're also the documents most worth keeping off third-party servers. Most online OCR tools ship your image through their API, log it for "abuse prevention," and then offer a paid tier to remove the watermark from the export. Morph runs Tesseract directly in your browser; there's no API to call, no abuse-prevention logging, no upload.

Where the cloud vision APIs still win

For handwriting (especially cursive), low-contrast photos, fish-eye distortions, and dense layouts with mixed columns, the cloud vision APIs have a measurable accuracy edge thanks to newer ML models. If you're processing tens of thousands of pages a month and accuracy matters more than privacy, those services are worth the bill. For most everyday OCR — receipts, screenshots, scanned printouts, photographs of text in clean light — Tesseract running locally is enough, and it doesn't ship your document anywhere.

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