Free Text Tools Online
Count, convert, compare and clean up text without copying it into a stranger's server.
Text tools are the ones you reach for without thinking: checking whether an essay hit the word count, fixing a heading that came out in all capitals, stripping duplicate lines out of a list, or pulling text out of a screenshot. They are small jobs, but doing them by hand is tedious. Because text is often personal, from a cover letter to a private message, every tool here works locally in your browser rather than sending what you typed anywhere.
What is in this collection
- Word, character, sentence and paragraph counters with reading time.
- Case converters for sentence case, title case, upper and lower.
- Duplicate line removal and list sorting.
- Text comparison to see exactly what changed between two versions.
- OCR to extract text from an image or a scanned page.
- Formatting cleanup for text pasted out of a PDF or a web page.
Why word counts matter more than people expect
Assignments, job applications, meta descriptions and social posts all come with limits, and going over is usually an automatic rejection rather than a polite warning. Counting as you write is far less painful than cutting afterwards. A counter that also shows characters is doubly useful, because many systems count characters rather than words, and a description that is fine at 25 words might still be too long at 180 characters.
Practical uses for OCR
Optical character recognition turns a picture of text back into text you can select, search and edit. It is genuinely useful for a photographed page from a book, a screenshot where you cannot copy the words, a scanned form, or a receipt you need to type up. Results are best when the image is well lit, roughly straight, and reasonably high resolution, so it is worth retaking a blurry photo rather than fighting the output afterwards.
Frequently asked questions
No. Everything you type or paste stays in your browser tab and is discarded the moment you close it.