Which tool do you need?
| If you… | Use |
|---|---|
| You want the words shown in a picture | Image to Text (OCR) |
| You want the camera, date and location recorded in a photo | EXIF Data Extractor |
| You want the colours an image is made of | Color Palette Extractor |
| You want the tags and cover art inside an MP3 | MP3 Tag & Album Art Extractor |
| You want the transcript out of a .srt or .vtt subtitle file | SRT Subtitle Viewer |
If your image is inside a document, take the original out first with the document image tools rather than screenshotting it — a re-compressed copy shifts the colours and drops the metadata.
Content, metadata, and the container
These tools answer three different questions about the same kind of file, and it is worth being clear which one you are asking. Content is what the file depicts: the text OCR reads, the colours a palette measures. Metadata is what the file records about itself: the camera that took a photo, the artist of a track. The container is what else is stored alongside: the cover image inside an MP3, the photographs inside a Word document.
Extraction from a container is lossless, because the thing you want is stored whole and unmodified — an MP3's cover art is a complete JPEG, and a picture in a .docx is the file the author inserted. Reading content is the opposite: OCR infers characters from shapes and a palette summarises millions of pixels into a handful of values. Exactness is available in one case and not the other.
Metadata deserves particular care. A photo's EXIF block frequently records exactly where it was taken, which is why the EXIF extractor shows coordinates but never sends them to a mapping service.
Every media & metadata tool
- Image to Text (OCR) — Convert screenshots, photos and scans into editable, copyable text with free OCR. Eleven languages, no watermarks, no limits.
- MP3 Tag & Album Art Extractor — Download the album cover embedded in an MP3 at full original quality, and read every ID3 tag — artist, album, year, genre and more.
- EXIF Data Extractor — Read the camera, lens, settings, date and GPS location hidden inside a photo — without the photo or its location leaving your device.
- Color Palette Extractor — Pull the dominant colors out of any image as hex, RGB and HSL, then export them straight to CSS variables or JSON.
- Signature Extractor — Turn a photo or scan of a signature into a clean transparent PNG. Removes the paper background in your browser, nothing uploaded.
- SRT Subtitle Viewer — Open a .srt or .vtt subtitle file, read it with timings, and export the transcript as plain text or CSV.
- SVG Code & Path Extractor — Extract inline
- WebVTT Subtitle Extractor — Convert WebVTT (.vtt) subtitles to SubRip (.srt) or extract clean timestamp-free text transcripts.
Frequently asked questions
Can I get the text out of a photo?
Yes — that is OCR. Use image to text. Accuracy depends almost entirely on how sharp and how large the text is in the picture.
Does reading a photo's location upload it anywhere?
No. The photo is parsed in your browser, and the coordinates are shown to you without being turned into a map link, because loading a map would disclose the location to a third party.
Why do the colours I extract differ slightly from the brand's official values?
JPEG compression and colour-profile conversion both shift values a little. Extract from a PNG or the original asset when you need to be exact.