# Image To Text - imagetotext.io

> imagetotext.io is an online tool to extract text from images for free. It OCR technology to extract text from photos.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/imagetotext-io](https://chrome-stats.com/d/imagetotext-io)

## Overview

- **ID:** `imagetotext-io`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** imagetotext
- **Category:** search-tools,bookmarks
- **Daily users:** 2,660
- **Weekly downloads:** 37
- **Rating:** 3.07 / 5 (14 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.3
- **Last updated:** 2021-06-11
- **First published:** 2021-02-03
- **Size:** 6.99 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/imagetotext-io/)
- **Website:** [https://imagetotext.io/](https://imagetotext.io/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/imagetotext-io/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/imagetotext-io/privacy/)

## Description

**Image To Text - imagetotext.io** is a free Chrome extension designed to extract text from images using advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Leveraging AI-powered OCR built with Python, this tool quickly converts text in photos into editable, searchable digital text, ideal for students, professionals, and anyone needing to digitize printed content.

This extension simplifies the process of text recognition directly within your browser, enabling seamless conversion for editing, storage, machine translation, text-to-speech, and mining purposes. Easily capture text from images to boost productivity and accessibility with this reliable, user-friendly OCR solution.

## Rankings

- #1,817 — Overall
- #51 — Bookmarks
- #215 — Search Tools
- #7 — text-to-image
- #18 — hd image
- #21 — ocr

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `<all_urls>`
- `notifications`

## Safety

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

User reviews of the Image To Text Firefox add-on show mixed results. Some users appreciate its simplicity and general functionality, while others experience significant issues such as failure to extract text from certain images, particularly with subtitles and non-English characters like Chinese. Performance can be slow or hang during text extraction. Overall, the add-on has potential but requires improvements in reliability and language support.

### Pros

- Works quite well for some users.
- Simple and clean app design.
- Improved performance noted over time.
- Positive user experience with text recognition in some cases.

### Cons

- Does not work reliably with certain texts like serial numbers or subtitles.
- Fails to recognize Chinese text.
- Extraction process can hang or take a very long time.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/imagetotext-io)