OCRRouterGet API key

Convert screenshot to text

Paste a screenshot and get its text. Useful for error messages, chats, code and anything you cannot select.

Result

Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.

3 free pages a day, no sign-up.

How it works

  1. Step 1
    Take a screenshot
  2. Step 2
    Paste or upload it
  3. Step 3
    Copy the text

Why use this Screenshot to text converter

Paste, don't save

Copy a screenshot to the clipboard and paste it straight in, with no file to find.

Code and logs keep their lines

Error messages, terminal output and code keep their line breaks so you can search or run them.

Chats and UIs

Text from chat apps, dashboards and dialog boxes is read in reading order.

What people use it for

Models that do this well

The free tool picks one for you. With the API you choose, and can set fallbacks so a failed page is retried on the next model.

1Gemini FlashGeneral vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.google/gemini-flash3 credits / page2Mistral OCRFast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.mistral/mistral-ocr6 credits / page3PaddleOCR-VLOpen-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.paddle/paddleocr-vl2 credits / page4TesseractThe classic open-source OCR engine. Plain text from clean printed scans.tesseract/tesseractFree

Do it with the API

Converting more than a few files? The same conversion is one request. Pick any model, or let auto choose.

Get API key

curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "auto",
    "file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
    "format": "markdown"
  }'

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