Pluck

Pluck — Extract Text From Anything On Your Screen Ever seen text trapped inside an image you couldn't select? A screenshot, a meme, a paused video, a scanned PDF, or a photo? Pluck solves this instantly. Press Ctrl+Shift+X, draw a box around any area on your screen, and Pluck extracts the text and copies it to your clipboard automatically. No uploads. No accounts. No internet required. Everything happens locally inside your browser. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ HOW IT WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Step 1 → Press Ctrl+Shift+X or click the Pluck icon Step 2 → Draw a selection box around any text on screen Step 3 → Pluck reads the text and copies it instantly Step 4 → Paste anywhere you want That's it. Three seconds from seeing text to having it in your clipboard. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ CORE FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ◆ SMART AREA SELECTION Draw a precise selection box around any part of your screen, just like the Windows Snipping Tool but designed specifically for extracting text. ◆ 100% LOCAL OCR ENGINE Powered by Tesseract.js, the world's most trusted open source OCR engine. All text recognition happens directly in your browser. Your screen content never leaves your device. Never. ◆ FREEZE SCREEN MODE Pluck captures a frozen snapshot of your screen before you select. This means you can extract text from dropdown menus, tooltips, hover states, and dynamic content that disappears when you move your mouse. ◆ MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT Pluck reads English, Urdu, and Hindi text out of the box. Perfect for South Asian users who regularly work with mixed language content in images and documents. ◆ AUTO TRANSLATION Extracted text can be automatically translated to English using built-in translation. One click and your Urdu or Hindi text becomes English instantly. No API key needed. ◆ TEXT TO SPEECH Let Pluck read your extracted text out loud using your browser's built-in speech engine. Great for accessibility, language learning, and hands-free workflows. ◆ MULTIPLE COPY MODES Choose exactly how your text gets copied: → Plain Text: exactly as extracted → Single Line: removes all line breaks, perfect for addresses and codes → Markdown: preserves structure with headers and lists ◆ SMART TEXT CLEANUP Pluck automatically fixes common OCR errors like broken line breaks, double spaces, and garbled characters. The text you get is clean and ready to use. ◆ CONFIDENCE INDICATOR Pluck shows you how confident it is about the extracted text with a color coded indicator. Green means high accuracy. Yellow means check it over. Red means the image quality was low. ◆ KEYBOARD SHORTCUT Trigger Pluck from anywhere without touching your mouse. Default shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+X on Windows and Cmd+Shift+X on Mac. Fully customizable from chrome://extensions/shortcuts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHO IS PLUCK FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STUDENTS Copy text from lecture slides, textbook photos, assignment screenshots, and study material images without typing everything manually. DEVELOPERS Grab error messages from screenshots, copy code from images shared on Twitter and LinkedIn, extract stack traces from bug reports. RESEARCHERS & ANALYSTS Extract data from charts, tables, and graphs in images. Copy text from scanned research papers and PDFs that have no selectable text. CONTENT CREATORS Copy captions, quotes, and text from images quickly. Extract text from reference screenshots while writing articles or creating content. URDU AND HINDI USERS Finally an OCR tool that actually reads Urdu and Hindi text correctly. Extract text from Urdu news screenshots, Hindi social media posts, and mixed language content with real accuracy. PROFESSIONALS Copy addresses from scanned business cards, extract information from document photos, grab text from presentation screenshots during meetings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Pluck was built with privacy as the foundation. → No servers involved → No data collection of any kind → No account required → No internet connection needed → Everything runs locally in Chrome → Your screen content stays on your device → Open source OCR engine (Tesseract.js) What you see on your screen is your business. Pluck keeps it that way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Windows: Ctrl + Shift + X Mac: Cmd + Shift + X Customize at chrome://extensions/shortcuts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ COMMON QUESTIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Does Pluck work on all websites? Yes, Pluck works on any webpage including Google Docs, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit, news sites, and more. Does it work on images inside PDFs? Yes. Open the PDF in Chrome and use Pluck to select any text area. Why is first scan slow? The first scan loads the OCR language data into memory. Every scan after that is significantly faster. Does it work offline? Yes. Pluck works completely offline after the language data is loaded once. Will it work on Chrome Web Store pages? Chrome prevents all extensions from running on the Chrome Web Store itself. This is a Chrome security rule, not a Pluck limitation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📬 SUPPORT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Having an issue or have a feature request? We read every message and respond personally. Pluck is built by an indie developer who genuinely cares about making this tool better for every user.