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: Moderate 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

Other platforms

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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 perfectly on various platforms
  • Highly effective in converting images and text
  • Uses artificial intelligence for improved accuracy
  • Minimal errors that are easy to fix
  • User-friendly after a learning curve
Cons
  • Occasional errors in text recognition
  • Issues with PDF access permissions
  • Performance problems on certain browsers (e.g., Brave)
  • Interface could be improved
  • Automatic language detection confuses some languages
Most mentioned
  • Works perfectly
  • Errors in text recognition
  • Performance issues on certain browsers
  • Need for improvement and learning curve
  • AI enhancement for better results
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 Ngô 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 requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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

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