OCR Image to text - Image Reader

A powerful optical character recognition (OCR) extension to capture and convert images to text
What is OCR Image to text - Image Reader?
OCR Image to Text - Image Reader is a cutting-edge Chrome extension that allows users to extract text content from images, PDFs, PPT files, or even web pages where text selection is disabled. The extension utilizes the advanced Tesseract OCR engine, capable of supporting more than 100 languages and automatically detecting text orientation. It operates offline and maintains optimal resource usage while ensuring accuracy and reliability in text extraction.

Extension stats

Users: 7,000+
Rating: 4.69 (13)
Version: 0.0.1 (Last updated: 2022-11-08)
Creation date: 2022-11-07
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • activeTab
  • notifications
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • https://tessdata.projectnaptha.com/*.gz
  • https://github.com/naptha/tessdata/blob/gh-pages/*.gz?raw=true
Size: 3.18M

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Extension summary

A powerful optical character recognition (OCR) extension to capture and convert images to text This extension adds a toolbar button to your browser to perform OCR. When this action button is pressed, it allows the user to select a region in the currently active window. The extension captures the area and tries to recognize text inside this region using the internal powerful OCR engine (Tesseract engine). This extension uses the "tesseract.js" library that supports more than 100 languages, automatic text orientation, and script detection.

This extension loads the JS library on the page and removes it when you are done. This way, there is no long-term resource usage.

Notes:

  1. On the first run, the extension might take a few minutes to fetch the training data from the internet. Since this resource is cached, all subsequent calls are going to be fast.
  2. Optical character recognition (OCR) is slow, so this extension displays a progress bar for each detection module.
  3. This extension does the OCR process offline. There is no server-side interaction. It only fetches the language training database once.
  4. This tool can be used to extract the text content out of images, PDF documents, Powerpoint slides, or extract the content of a web page when user-section is forbidden.
  5. If the text extraction confidence is low, the extension inverts the image and retries (particularly useful on the dark theme)
  6. If the text extraction is not accurate, you can modify the image and drop it into the interface to retry.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Works almost flawlessly with minimal mistakes
  • High optimization and speed compared to other applications
  • Successfully reads text from various images and screens
  • Easy to use and generally effective in text recognition
Cons
  • Some issues with accuracy and needing corrections
  • Problems with compatibility on certain browsers like Brave
  • Requires permission to access content on PDFs, causing errors
Most mentioned
  • Works perfectly
  • Most outputs are correct but with some mistakes
  • Has room for improvement and a learning curve
Recent reviews
Absolutely amazing! I was skeptical before trying out, but it works almost flawlessly - makes tiny mistakes here and there, but those are easy to find and fix.
by ChaCha F., 2024-09-21

Works perfectly
by Tuấn Anh, 2024-09-19

mevcut uygulamalar arasında en iyi optimizasyona ve hıza sahip
by Emin Yardımcı, 2024-05-23
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Extension safety

Risk impact

OCR Image to text - Image Reader is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

OCR Image to text - Image Reader has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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