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.

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By: Martin Saturka

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Users: 85 ▼ -5

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/*

Size: 35.77K

Email: to*****@quadet.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 68237 ▼ 1139

Other rankings

#1680 in Tools ▼ 17 #204 in image keyword 74 ▼ 25

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Not available on Edge

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Summary

Analyze keywords

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

Safety

Risk impact

Perceptual image search is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.