Attach your JPG file, such as a scan, a screenshot or a photo of a page, and ask ToolGPT what it says. It reads the text in your browser and gives you a .txt file to copy from or download.
Open ToolGPT and press the + button beside the message box, or drop the file into the chat. No account is needed to start.
Type “Extract the text” or “What does this say?”.
The text arrives as a .txt file in the chat, ready to download, paste and edit.
Retyping a photographed page, receipt, notice or business card takes time, and text inside a JPG cannot be selected, searched or pasted. ToolGPT reads printed English text from the photo, and a sharp, upright, well-lit shot gives far better results than a blurry or angled one.
Recognition runs in your browser with Tesseract, an open-source OCR engine, so the JPG is not sent to an OCR service. So that the assistant can answer questions about the result, the first 2,000 characters of the recognized text are shared with the AI in your chat.
It reads printed English text. Handwriting, other languages and very small or blurry text come out poorly or not at all. It reads at most 20 pages or photos at a time, so for a longer PDF ToolGPT asks which pages you need.
JPG, also written JPEG, is the standard format for photographs, used by cameras, phones and almost every website. It compresses images with loss, so photos stay small while still looking natural. It has no transparency, and strong compression or repeated saving adds blocky artifacts, especially around text and sharp edges.
TXT is a plain text file: just characters, with no fonts, images or formatting. Every computer, phone and text editor can open it, and its contents paste cleanly into documents, emails and other programs. It cannot keep layout such as columns, tables or bold text.
English only for now. Text in other languages is not recognized reliably.
No. It is made for printed text such as documents, screenshots and signs.
No. The JPG stays in your browser. Part of the recognized text is shared with the AI assistant so it can answer questions about it.
Try it with your own file
Open ToolGPT, attach a file, and type what you want done.