# Image Reader (OCR)

> Easily get words out of an image with OCR engine!

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `image-reader-ocr`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sevina
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,tabs
- **Daily users:** 517
- **Weekly downloads:** 22
- **Rating:** 3.20 / 5 (10 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-08
- **First published:** 2018-11-10
- **Size:** 13 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/image-reader-ocr/)
- **Website:** [https://mybrowseraddon.com/image-reader.html](https://mybrowseraddon.com/image-reader.html)

## Description

Image Reader (OCR) is a Chrome extension that extracts text from any image using two open-source OCR engines: Tesseract.js and IBM Granite Docling. Choose Tesseract for lightweight, language-pack-based OCR or Granite Docling for a more advanced neural model (note: Granite requires downloading ~1200MB of model data). The extension fetches necessary language and model data from public repositories, so large language packs are downloaded on demand rather than bundled.

To use the extension, open its interface, upload an image via the file selector, and choose your OCR engine and language or backend (CPU/GPU). Results are returned as selectable text you can copy and use. Ideal for converting screenshots, scanned documents, and photos into editable text. Report bugs via the extension homepage bug form.

## Rankings

- #4,892 — Overall
- #2 — ocr
- #50 — reader
- #64 — hd image
- #74 — image
- #87 — header

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `contextMenus`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

### Pros

- Simple and easy to use
- Accurate text recognition from images
- Best OCR program according to some reviews

### Cons

- Does not work properly on Android
- Add-on fails to load or function as expected
- Lack of features like clipboard support and piping results to other apps

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