Cloud Vision

Adds a right-click menu item to images to detect text, labels and faces.

What is Cloud Vision?

Cloud Vision' is a useful Chrome extension that adds a right-click menu item to images for text, label, and face detection. It is empowered by the Google Cloud Vision API and lets you conveniently access advanced functionalities. Select 'Text detection' to copy detected text to your clipboard, 'Label detection' to tag your image with relevant terms, or 'Face detection' to highlight any faces recognized in your image.

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Extension stats

By: https://imjasonh.com

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 829 ▼ -1

Rating: 4.07 (15)

Version: 0.0.9 (Last updated: 2016-03-25)

Creation date: 2016-03-25

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

clipboardWrite
contextMenus
notifications
file://*
<all_urls>

Size: 7.86K

Email: im*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 33790 ▼ 159

Other rankings

#3325 in Just for Fun ▼ 4 #40 in cloud keyword 23 ▼ 13 #230 in label keyword 17 ▼ 26

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Extension summary

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Right-click an image and select "Text detection" to have detected text copied to your clipboard. Select "Label detection" to display terms to label your image. Select "Face detection" to outline faces detected in the image.

Source available at https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-vision/tree/master/chrome-extension

Icons made by Freepik (http://www.freepik.com) from Flaticon (http://www.flaticon.com) is licensed by CC 3.0 BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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 well for image text detection.
Great for seeing what text says.
Really cool extension.

Cons

API request fails frequently.
Doesn't work with PDFs.
Text detection issues in the latest Chrome version.
Names of people scanned not accurately identified.

Most mentioned

API request failed.
Hope it works with SVGs.
Questions about API key usage.
Doesn't work with PDFs.
Text detection issues.

Recent reviews

Still "Api request failed"

Hubert Kępski, 2023-08-23

Comment on 20211014 - I hope it work on SVGs Comment on 191220 - Text Detection doesn't seem to work on the current version of Chrome Canary (Version 81.0.4001.2). I hope it works. Older comment - I hope the extension works on Twitter videos.