Image Reader (OCR)

Name: Image Reader (OCR)
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)
Author: Leonardo Compson

Easily get words out of an image with OCR engine!

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Image Reader (OCR) is a powerful Chrome extension designed to effortlessly extract text from any image using an open-source OCR engine, Tesseract.js. This tool allows users to upload images directly via the interface and supports multiple languages by fetching the necessary language data packs dynamically. Ideal for quickly converting image-based text into editable formats without hassle.

Built on the trusted Tesseract OCR Engine, Image Reader (OCR) ensures high accuracy and efficiency. The extension is easy to use—simply select your image and choose the OCR language before processing. Whether for work, study, or personal use, Image Reader (OCR) streamlines text extraction directly in your browser.

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0.1.8 Last updated: 2024-12-30

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2022-01-12

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7.68MB

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Edge Add-on Store

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2025-07-15

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# 3,551 ▼ 14

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#62 in text-to-image keyword 7

#63 in package keyword 13 ▼ 4

#66 in image keyword 70 ▲ 5

#71 in reader keyword 70 ▼ 14

#97 in library keyword 35 ▼ 1

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Image Reader (OCR) (v0.1.8)

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It's using tesseract but the trained data-model I am looking for was jpn_vert (it supports only jpn); and secondly, unlike other OCR extensions, this does not OCR from browser, it makes the user copy image-file to its window. (If that was the case, it's best/better to use Windows Snipping Tool with "Text Action" feature, it does incredible OCR of mixed languages and in pretty decent time)

by Hi*****, 2024-03-02

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Image Reader (OCR) does not require any sensitive permissions.

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