# Copyfish

> Do you need to extract text from images, videos or PDF? If yes, then the Copyfish free OCR software is for you. Until now, your only option was to retype the text. Copyfish is so much faster and more fun. It can do desktop screenshots and OCR, too.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/copyfish-ocr-software](https://chrome-stats.com/d/copyfish-ocr-software)

## Overview

- **ID:** `copyfish-ocr-software`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ocr.Space (Free OCR API)
- **Category:** language-support,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 16,187
- **Weekly downloads:** 349
- **Rating:** 4.08 / 5 (184 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.3.17
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-20
- **First published:** 2017-05-26
- **Size:** 236 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copyfish-ocr-software/)
- **Website:** [https://ocr.space/copyfish/](https://ocr.space/copyfish/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copyfish-ocr-software/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copyfish-ocr-software/privacy/)

## Description

**Copyfish** is a powerful free OCR Chrome extension designed to effortlessly extract text from various sources including images, videos, PDFs, desktop screenshots, and more. Forget retyping text manually – Copyfish quickly grabs text from photographs, diagrams, screenshots, memes, subtitles on YouTube, and even tricky Javascript/AJAX content.

Features include quick language switching with customizable buttons, automatic translation of extracted text, and a repeat feature ideal for subtitled videos. For desktop OCR, Copyfish integrates with the free UI.Vision XModule to capture and process desktop app text and popup dialogs seamlessly.

Unlike other tools that modify webpages, Copyfish lets you manually select the area for OCR, ensuring compatibility across all websites and document types. Open-source and leveraging the OCR.space API, Copyfish is perfect for students, translators, developers, and anyone needing fast, reliable text extraction.

## Rankings

- #584 — Overall
- #23 — Language Support
- #86 — Photos, Music & Videos
- #15 — ocr
- #53 — fun
- #56 — software

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `notifications`
- `nativeMessaging`
- `clipboardRead`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- This extension has medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Copyfish is valued for its usefulness and OCR capabilities, with many users calling it a must-have. However, several report inconsistent performance, image-size errors, and occasional interference with page elements, leading to reliability concerns. Language support appears mixed across contexts.

### Pros

- Generally very useful and widely praised; many users call it awesome or a must-have.
- OCR/text extraction is a core feature that reviewers rely on.
- Works across multiple languages.

### Cons

- Inconsistent performance: it sometimes fails to extract text or stops working on certain images or pages.
- Frequent image-size related errors that hinder OCR results.
- Can interfere with page rendering, causing elements to fail to load or login issues on some sites.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/copyfish-ocr-software)