# Image to Text (OCR)

> Image to Text (OCR) - OCR for multiple languages.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `image-to-text-ocr`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** hitesh saini
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 350
- **Weekly downloads:** 12
- **Rating:** 1.00 / 5 (9 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.1.3
- **Last updated:** 2021-06-14
- **First published:** 2021-05-03
- **Size:** 464 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/image-to-text-ocr/)
- **Website:** [https://imagetext.xyz](https://imagetext.xyz/)

## Description

Image to Text (OCR) is a powerful Chrome extension designed to extract text from any image or PDF with support for over 100 languages worldwide. It offers high-quality PDF and text output, allowing users to right-click images to extract text easily. The extension supports cropping the current screen for OCR and can play extracted text as audio, ensuring accessibility and convenience.

Additional features include automatic detection of links and emails within images or PDFs, and it maintains accuracy regardless of image orientation. This open-source project requires an active internet connection and supports a wide variety of languages, making it an ideal tool for multilingual OCR needs. Learn more and contribute on [GitHub](https://github.com/fxnoob/image-to-text-pro) or visit the [homepage](https://imagetext.xyz).

## Rankings

- #6,200 — Overall
- #3 — ocr
- #9 — text-to-image
- #56 — hd image
- #78 — hd images
- #83 — image

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`
- `tts`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

### Pros

- Accuracy is reasonably good for images that are of adequate size
- Easy to compare the extracted text with the original image due to side-by-side display

### Cons

- Does not work on Firefox as intended
- Redirects to a different website without successful OCR execution
- Complex and inefficient user interface
- Inability to select text directly with the mouse
- Fails to recognize text in multiple languages

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