# SnipText

> Extract text from images using OCR

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `sniptext`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Aryeahh
- **Category:** web-development,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 34
- **Weekly downloads:** 11
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-02
- **First published:** 2026-03-29
- **Size:** 5.97 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sniptext/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sniptext/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sniptext/privacy/)

## Description

SnipText is a clean, minimal browser extension that lets you capture any part of your screen and instantly extract the text from it using OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

It works entirely locally in your browser. Just activate the extension, click and drag to select an area containing text (even text trapped inside images, videos, or protected PDFs), and SnipText will quickly process the image and provide the plain text for you to copy.

Features:

Click & drag to select any area on a webpage
 Local OCR extraction via Tesseract.js
 One-click copy to your clipboard
 Local snippet history so you don't lose past snips
 Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+S (or Cmd+Shift+S on Mac)
 Privacy-focused: Processing happens locally, no data is sent out.

## Rankings

- #19,512 — Overall
- #28 — ocr
- #184 — speech to text
- #215 — summarize text
- #222 — context menu

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

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