# Faster OCR

> Image to text

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `faster-ocr`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** StellarExplorerGuy
- **Category:** language-support,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 13
- **Version:** 0.0.0.15
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-04
- **First published:** 2024-09-29
- **Size:** 92 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/faster-ocr/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/StellarExplorerGuy/projects](https://github.com/StellarExplorerGuy/projects)

## Description

Faster OCR improves your workflow by swiftly extracting text from images and PDFs that may contain images, all while ensuring that your data stays secure and is never exposed online.

Languages: English - Chinese [中文] - Japanese [日本語] - Korean [한국어] - Arabic [العربية] - Tamil [தமிழ்] - Devanagari [देवनागरी]

Features:
• ⚡ Performance: quickly converts images to text without delays(file not sent to internet).
• 🎯 Precision: delivers highly accurate results.
• 🔒 Offline Functionality: operates entirely offline, ensuring your data stays private.
• 🌍 Multilingual: handles multiple languages.
• 🔄 Text Rotation Detection: captures and processes rotated text.
• 🔨 Detection Scale: adjust scale to impact the detection accuracy.

You can edit the processed content directly in the editor.
• 📝 Copy Options: use the [RAW] icon to copy the plain text or [DOC] for editors like MS Word.
• ⏳ Processing Speed: depends on your system resources and file size.
• Paste files from your clipboard for processing: Ctrl/Cmd + V.

Note: compatibility may vary across devices 😢.

Also, it can be used with True Paper plugin to increase detection accuracy.

## Rankings

- #30,076 — Overall
- #13 — ocr
- #66 — fast vpn
- #177 — waste

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- This permission has no access or impact on the user's system or data, thus carrying no risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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