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Extract text from screenshots, photos, screen areas, and any image on the web. Private and offline — your images never leave your device.Textquill extracts text from any image, screenshot, or web page — entirely on your device. Right-click an image or select any area, and get editable text in a second. 16 languages, QR codes, read-aloud, export to TXT/Markdown. No account, no uploads, no tracking.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Sundar — I built Textquill because I was tired of retyping text trapped in images: screenshots, photos of documents, signs, slides, receipts.
Textquill turns any image into editable text right in your browser, and everything runs on your device. No account, no uploads, no tracking — your images and the text in them never leave your computer.
What you can do:
• Right-click any image on the web → Extract text
• Select any area of the screen (Alt+Shift+S)
• Drop in, drag & drop, or paste an image
• 16 languages incl. Hindi, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese (+ auto-detect)
• QR & barcode detection, read-aloud, searchable local history
• Export to TXT or Markdown, light & dark mode
It's free and works offline (after a one-time language download for non-English). The OCR runs locally via WebAssembly, so it's private by design — a safe choice for screenshots of private messages, documents, or work whiteboards.
I'd genuinely love your feedback: what would make this a daily-use tool for you? Which languages and workflows matter most? I'm around all day to answer anything. 🙏
→ Add to Chrome: https://textquill.app
A history of recent extractions inside the extension popup would be really useful so you can grab something you copied earlier without re-snipping. Maybe even with a quick search across the saved snippets.
Love the offline approach and the right-click extraction sounds super handy. One thing I'd love to see is a small floating mini-toolbar that pops up right after the text is extracted, with quick options like "copy," "translate," or "open in editor," so I don't have to dig into the extension menu every time.
the right-click to extract text on any image feels really well thought out, super smooth workflow for grabbing text from screenshots without breaking your flow.
Right-clicking an image and getting clean text back without any upload step feels refreshing, and the offline OCR is impressively fast even on screenshots.
The right-click context menu integration is such a thoughtful touch — feels native instead of bolted on. Love that the OCR runs locally, no upload hop just to grab text from a screenshot.
Right-clicking an image and grabbing the text felt almost instant, which surprised me for a fully offline tool. The 16-language support is a nice bonus on top of that smooth experience.
Super smooth right-click OCR on web images and the offline angle is genuinely reassuring. The read-aloud feature was a nice surprise, though I wish the area selection tool had a magnifier for pixel-perfect cropping.
Runs right in the browser with nothing to install, which caught me off guard. The read-aloud feature after extracting text was a nice touch I didn't expect.
About Textquill on Product Hunt
“Turn any image into text — private, on-device OCR”
Textquill was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 20 upvotes and 17 comments, placing #39 on the daily leaderboard. Extract text from screenshots, photos, screen areas, and any image on the web. Private and offline — your images never leave your device.Textquill extracts text from any image, screenshot, or web page — entirely on your device. Right-click an image or select any area, and get editable text in a second. 16 languages, QR codes, read-aloud, export to TXT/Markdown. No account, no uploads, no tracking.
Textquill was featured in Chrome Extensions (52.7k followers), Design Tools (261.4k followers) and Productivity (656.7k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 202.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Textquill?
Textquill was hunted by Sundar Shahi Thakuri. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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