Is 18IMG really free?

Yes. All 25 tools are free to use, with no signup, no file size limit, and no watermarks on output.

Are my images uploaded to a server?

No. Every operation runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. Your images never leave your device.

No. There is no signup, no login, and no tracking. Open the tool and start working immediately.

There are no artificial limits. The only constraint is the memory of your device, since processing happens locally.

English is included by default. The Tesseract worker supports over 100 languages if you upload additional trained data files.

Tesseract works best on printed text. Handwriting recognition is significantly less accurate and may produce garbled output.

Extract text using Tesseract.js

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One image. First run downloads OCR data.