Perceptual image search

Looks for similar images via web-search engines.
What is Perceptual image search?
Perceptual Image Search is a Chrome extension that enables you to find similar images through web search engines. It helps assess the presence of image forms online, including altered versions. This extension is part of the perceptual image suite and provides journalists with open-source tools for image analysis.

Extension stats

Users: 84 ▲ 9
Version: 0.2.2 (Last updated: 2020-11-20)
Creation date: 2018-05-17
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • contextMenus
  • https://image.baidu.com/*
  • https://www.bing.com/images/*
  • https://www.google.com/*
  • https://tineye.com/*
  • https://yandex.com/images/*
  • https://yandex.ru/images/*
  • https://yandex.by/images/*
  • https://yandex.ua/images/*
  • See more
Size: 35.77K

Ranking

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#2268 in Tools ▲ 15

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Extension summary

Search by images, including by altered forms of the images, can help in assessing of the images. The question here is: had anyone posted a form of the image? And the "Perceptual image analysis" extension can help to find out since when the images are online then.

  • search by images even from private sites
  • open-source tools for journalists
  • part of perceptual image suite

Extension safety

Risk impact

Perceptual image search requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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