OpenFreeOCR.online is a free, no-signup online OCR and image-to-text tool for photos, screenshots, scanned documents, receipts, and notes. It supports batch OCR, paste-from-clipboard, drag-and-drop upload, and text grouping by word, sentence, or paragraph.
The app is built with Next.js, React, Fluent UI, and Bun. OCR is performed through NVIDIA's hosted OCR API via the server-side /api/ocr route.
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- Free online OCR with no signup
- Convert images, screenshots, photos, receipts, and scanned documents to text
- Paste screenshots directly from the clipboard
- Batch OCR for multiple images
- Group OCR output by word, sentence, or paragraph
- Copy or download extracted text
- Privacy-first app: OpenFreeOCR does not store uploaded images or extracted text
bun install
bun run devOpen http://localhost:3000.
Create a local .env file from .env.example and set:
NVIDIA_API_KEY=your_nvidia_key_here
Do not commit real API keys.
bun run typecheck
bun run build
bun run startRender deployment settings are in DEPLOY_RENDER.md and render.yaml.
The production domain is:
https://openfreeocr.online
The app includes Privacy Policy and Terms of Service pages, canonical host redirects, security headers, and no-store API responses for OCR requests.
/keep-alive returns 200 ok as a lightweight health endpoint.