How Someone Earns $3,000/Month From a Simple Screenshot-to-Text Tool

The Story

Hey,

Today’s story is about a creator who built one of the simplest AI tools on the internet — a tool that takes a screenshot and instantly turns it into text.

No dashboard.
No login.
No complicated features.
Just upload → extract → copy.

And yet… it now earns around $3,000/month.

It started with a common frustration.

He noticed how often students, writers, and office workers took screenshots of documents, slides, or PDFs — but couldn’t copy the text. People were manually typing long paragraphs from images.

A small problem.
But a universal one.

So he created a one-page tool: a clean website where you drag a screenshot and it uses OCR to convert the image to text. That’s it.

He didn’t build a SaaS. He didn’t build an app. He built a feature — and turned it into a business.

Within weeks, users began sharing it on Reddit, productivity groups, and coding forums. Bloggers wrote about it. And Google started ranking it for keywords like:

• “extract text from screenshot”

• “screenshot to text online”

• “free OCR tool”

Traffic climbed.
Then it climbed more.

Today, the site gets 120,000+ monthly visitors, and monetizes through:

• A $5/month Pro plan with better accuracy

• Google AdSense on the free version

• Light affiliate links to AI tools

That alone brings in roughly $3,000/month — from a tool built in a weekend.

And here’s the surprising part:

Tools like this already exist (Screenshot Scraper, Docsumo’s Screenshot Reader, Helperbird OCR).
But that didn’t matter.

The creator didn’t invent anything new — he simply made a faster, cleaner, simpler version.

Here’s How You Can Do This

1. Solve a Tiny Frustration

You don’t need a million-dollar idea — you need a tiny annoyance people face every day.
Think about repetitive tasks like copying text, converting formats, compressing images, renaming files, counting words, etc.

Go to:

• Reddit (r/productivity, r/students)

• Google autocomplete

• Facebook groups

Search “How do I…” and you'll find micro-problems people complain about.
Pick one simple task and build a tool that does it faster than anyone else.

2. One Page Is Enough

Don’t build a full SaaS.
Don’t build login systems.
Don’t overthink.

You can create a single-page tool using:

• Framer (no code)

• Replit (simple hosting)

• V0.dev (AI-generated UI)

Add one clear headline (“Screenshot to Text in 1 Click”), one upload box, and one button.
Google LOVES simple tools with clear titles — they rank fast and attract organic traffic.

3. Use AI to Build Features, Not Startups

You don’t need to code the brain of the tool yourself.

Use existing APIs:

• OCR.space API (free)

• Google Vision OCR

• Tesseract.js (runs in browser)

AI handles the extraction.
AI cleans the text.
AI formats the output.

Your only job:
Make it smooth, fast, and easy to use.

4. Monetize Lightly

These tools don’t need aggressive selling.

Add:

• Google AdSense to the free page

• A $3–$5/month Pro plan (higher accuracy, no ads, faster processing)

• Small affiliate links to AI tools

A simple setup like this can make a few hundred dollars with just 10,000–20,000 monthly visitors — and many tools grow far beyond that.

5. Promote With Social Media + SEO (Super Important)

To get your first 1,000–10,000 users fast:

On Social Media:

• Post demo videos on TikTok, Reels, Shorts showing how the tool works

• Share before/after examples (screenshot → text)

• Join Reddit communities like r/productivity, r/students, r/technology

• Drop your link only when genuinely helpful

For SEO:

• Target keywords like “screenshot to text,” “free OCR tool,” “extract text from image”

• Write 2–3 quick blog posts explaining how your tool works

• Make your page load extremely fast (Google rewards speed)

• Add clean meta titles + descriptions

Just consistent posting + basic SEO can take a simple tool to thousands of free monthly visitors.

One simple tool, one tiny problem, and consistency — that’s all it takes.

Someone is earning $3,000/month from a website that extracts text from screenshots.

Your idea doesn’t need to be big.
It needs to be useful.

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