ORC Text Snap

ORC Text Snap

Extract text from images with Optical Character Recognition

What is ORC Text Snap?
'ORC Text Snap' is a user-friendly Chrome extension. Its function is rooted in Optical Character Recognition (OCR), allowing users to extract text from images, videos, and PDF documents. It facilitates copying text without retyping each character. It features translation options and customizable OCR language settings. A potent tool for extracting text from multimedia content, improving productivity, and boosting work efficiency.
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By: Jofen
Rating: 1.83 (6)
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2022-09-17)
Creation date: 2019-08-27
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • tabs
  • activeTab
  • clipboardWrite
Size: 241.66K
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Summary

Optical Character Recognition - Copy text from any image, video or PDF

A handy tool to extract text from images, videos or PDF with just one click and crop instead of retyping the text character by character. A tipical use case is to copy any text from youtube videos, image formatted tutorials.

This tool copies text from images using the lightweight OCR engine Tesseract.js.

How to use it:

  1. Click the icon, then select the area/image containing the text.
  2. Wait until the tool to extract the text for you.
  3. Extracted result will show in a text box. You can then click the copy button to load it into your Clipboard and Ctrl + V to paste it anywhere.
  4. There is an option to translate the extracted text into your selected language.
  5. You can define the ORC language and targeted translation languages on the options page.
User reviews
when clicking the icon no select option appearing
by Soumya S Nair Soumya S Nair, 2024-03-13

不可用
by wry樵易夫 wry樵易夫, 2022-11-03

Not working at all
by Test Account Test Account, 2022-01-06
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Safety
Risk impact

ORC Text Snap is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install ORC Text Snap if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

ORC Text Snap has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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