# SnipLingo — OCR & Translate

> Select any page area, recognize text locally with OCR, and translate it into Bulgarian, English, German, Spanish, or Russian.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `sniplingo-ocr-translate`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Edarm
- **Category:** language-support
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 0.1.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25
- **First published:** 2026-07-22
- **Size:** 13 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sniplingo-ocr-translate/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Darmanchev/sniplingo/issues](https://github.com/Darmanchev/sniplingo/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sniplingo-ocr-translate/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sniplingo-ocr-translate/privacy/)

## Description

SnipLingo lets you select any visible area of a web page, recognize text with local OCR, and translate the recognized text into Bulgarian, English, German, Spanish, or Russian.

Features:
<ul><li>Select text from images, videos, documents, and regular web pages.</li><li>OCR processing runs locally inside Firefox.</li><li>Screenshots are never uploaded.</li><li>Translation starts only after you click Translate.</li><li>Only the recognized text and selected target language are sent securely to the SnipLingo server and DeepL.</li><li>Copy recognized or translated text to the clipboard.</li><li>Start area selection from the toolbar or with Alt+Shift+S.</li></ul>
An internet connection is required only for translation. The first OCR scan may take up to one minute while the local OCR engine starts.

## Rankings

- #93,362 — Overall
- #26 — ocr

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `notifications`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `https://irt4h2p0i5vrxkpwkfx9n34g.169.58.58.11.sslip.io/*`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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