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---slug: extract-text-from-imagetitle: How to Extract Text from an Image Using the Terminalauthor: Frádely Dilonétags: [ocr, terminal, image, beginner]---
Sometimes you have a screenshot or photo of text and want to copy the words. Here's how to do it using a tool called **Tesseract OCR**.
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### 📥 Step 1: Install Tesseract
#### 🐧 On Ubuntu / Debian:
```bashsudo apt install tesseract-ocr

🍎 On macOS (with Homebrew):#

brew install tesseract

🖼 Step 2: Place your image#

Make sure your image file is in the same folder. Example:

myphoto.jpg

📤 Step 3: Extract the text#

Run this command:

tesseract myphoto.jpg output

This creates a file called:

output.txt

Inside, you'll find all the text it could detect from your image.

✅ That’s it!
Use this to extract quotes, copy from scanned documents, or save handwritten notes digitally.