OCR - Image Reader

A powerful optical character recognition (OCR) extension to capture and convert images to text

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OCR - Image Reader: Powerful Text Recognition Extension

'OCR - Image Reader' is a Chrome extension that adds a toolbar button to perform OCR. Upon pressing, the user can select a region in the active window for the extension to capture. It recognizes text within the selected region using the powerful Tesseract OCR engine, supporting over 100 languages, auto text orientation, and script detection. This extension operates offline, only requiring an initial fetch of the language training database from the internet. It can extract text from images, pdfs, ppt slides, or web content when user-selection is prohibited. If extraction confidence is low, image inversion and retrying is possible, improving performance on dark themes.

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By: brian.girko

Users: 200,000+

Rating: 4.06

(214)

1 new ratings

Version: 0.4.3 (Last updated: 2025-02-06)

Creation date: 2019-06-16

Permissions:

storage
unlimitedStorage
activeTab
notifications
scripting

Host permissions:

https://tessdata.projectnaptha.com/*.gz
https://github.com/naptha/tessdata/blob/gh-pages/*.gz?raw=true

Size: 2.67M

Email: br*****@gmail.com

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 1,441 ▲ 89

Other rankings

#26 in Developer Tools

#14 in image keyword 43 ▲ 1

#26 in reader keyword 46 ▼ 1

#31 in text-to-image keyword 40 ▼ 1

#57 in detect keyword 20 ▼ 1

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Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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Pros

Easy to use and accurate
Works well with various languages
Allows precise selection for text extraction
Useful for work and daily tasks
Fast performance

Cons

Sometimes misreads words
Efficiency issues with math equations
Difficulty in right-click scanning
Occasional malfunction noted

Most mentioned

High accuracy and effectiveness
User-friendly interface
Ability to copy text from images and screens
Accessibility with local files
Support for multiple languages

User reviews

This thing rocks! Just use it directly from the website you're looking at with a button at the top of your Chrome browser screen. Even comes with a "copy text" button. So 4 steps are needed, click the button at the top of your screen, select the area where the text you need is located, click on the "copy text" button and, paste it into the other app/program you're working on that needs the text you copied. Tried other online tools and they weren't very good. Just use this and save a lot of time and hassle.

Cameron Madden, 2025-03-08

мне понравилось, удобно

Eskender Qa, 2025-02-18

Amazingly easy and accurate. Way better than the previous OCR plugin I was using. I love that it allows you to draw a window to be super precious on what you want transcribed

BTkbells, 2025-02-16

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Extension safety

Risk impact

OCR - Image Reader requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Request access to the following domains: projectnaptha.com, github.com
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