Image Reader (OCR)

Easily get words out of an image with OCR engine!

Image Reader (OCR) is a powerful Chrome extension that lets you extract text from any image effortlessly. Powered by the open-source Tesseract.js OCR engine, it converts images to editable text using advanced recognition technology. Simply upload your image via the extension interface, select the correct OCR language (default is English), and obtain the text instantly.

The extension supports multiple languages by fetching language data dynamically from GitHub, ensuring accurate results without bloating the add-on size. Whether you need to digitize printed text, transcribe screenshots, or extract quotes from pictures, Image Reader (OCR) offers a seamless and easy solution.

Manifest V3
Users:
2,234+ 54
Rating:
2.00
(1)
Version:
0.1.8 (Last updated: 2024-12-30)
Creation date:
2022-01-12
Permissions:
  • storage
  • contextMenus
Size:
8.05M
Full description:
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Image Reader (OCR) (v0.1.8)
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User reviews

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 Hideki, 2024-03-02
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