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Extract text from GIF images including static graphics, legacy web banners, and UI elements. Designed to handle dithering and the 256-colour palette limitations common in GIF files. Supports 15 languages. All processing happens in your browser — no uploads.
Upload your GIF file
Drag and drop your GIF image onto the drop zone, click Browse files to select one, or paste with Ctrl+V. Only the first frame of animated GIFs is processed — if your text appears in a later frame, save that frame as a separate image before uploading. Maximum file size is 10 MB.
Select the language of the text
Choose the language of the text using the language selector. Up to 3 languages can be selected simultaneously for multilingual content. Matching the correct language is the most important step for accurate recognition.
Enable Grayscale to work around GIF's colour limit
GIF images are limited to 256 colours, which means gradients and subtle shading are approximated with dithering patterns. These patterns can look like noise to an OCR engine. Enabling Grayscale under Image Enhancement converts the image to uniform grey tones and typically improves recognition accuracy significantly for GIF files.
Adjust Contrast for low-quality or dithered GIFs
Older GIF graphics — especially those from the early web — often have heavy dithering and low contrast between text and background. Try the Strong Contrast setting to sharpen text edges before recognition. All enhancements run locally and do not modify your original file.
Wait for recognition to complete
The progress bar shows two phases: downloading the language data file (first time only — cached by your browser afterwards) and running OCR. GIF files are typically processed in a few seconds.
Review the result and copy or download
The extracted text is fully editable — correct any errors directly in the text area. The confidence score indicates reliability: if it is below 65%, try toggling Grayscale and Contrast settings and click Re-run. Use Copy or Download .txt to export the result.
No — your GIF file is never sent to any server. All OCR processing runs entirely in your browser using Tesseract.js and WebAssembly, so your image stays on your device and is never transmitted anywhere. This applies equally to static and animated GIF files.
The tool supports 15 languages: English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Turkish, and Ukrainian. You can select up to 3 languages simultaneously for GIF graphics with multilingual content.
Only the first frame is processed. If the text you need appears in a later frame, extract that specific frame using an image editor or a free online GIF frame extractor, then upload it here.
GIF can store at most 256 colours per image. When an image contains more colours — gradients, anti-aliased text, or photos — a technique called dithering is used to simulate missing colours using patterns of available ones. These dithering patterns introduce noise that OCR engines misread as characters. Enabling Grayscale removes colour entirely and usually eliminates this problem.
Confidence scores for GIF files are often lower than for PNG or TIFF because dithering patterns introduce noise that Tesseract can misread as characters. A score below 65% on a GIF usually means dithering is interfering — enable Grayscale and re-run before concluding the result is unreliable. Above 85% is reliable regardless of format.
GIF's 256-colour limit forces dithering on any image with gradients or smooth tones — including anti-aliased text. Those dithering patterns look like noise to an OCR engine. For documents with text, PNG is a far better choice: it is lossless, supports millions of colours, and produces no dithering artefacts.
Grayscale converts the image to shades of grey before recognition — removing colour noise and dithering artefacts that Tesseract can misinterpret as characters. Contrast amplifies the difference between light and dark areas, making text edges sharper. Both options are applied locally in your browser; the original file is never modified.
Drop a GIF image here or click to browse
GIF — first, then others · Max 10 MB
You can also paste with Ctrl+V
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