# Tiny OCR

> Offline OCR for selected tab area: draw a rectangle, extract text in the same language, and copy it to clipboard. No login, no cloud upload, no personal data storage.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/tiny-ocr?hl=ja](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tiny-ocr?hl=ja)

## Overview

- **ID:** `tiny-ocr`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** bipin
- **Category:** search-tools,language-support,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-26
- **First published:** 2026-04-23
- **Size:** 106 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tiny-ocr/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tiny-ocr/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tiny-ocr/privacy/)

## Description

Tiny OCR lets users capture text directly from the visible part of the current Firefox tab.

How it works:

Click the add-on icon and start selection.
Draw a rectangular region on the page.
OCR runs locally on-device (offline).
Extracted text is shown in a result panel and can be copied to clipboard.
Key points:

Supports multiple languages/scripts (including Latin, Devanagari, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Cyrillic).
Designed for privacy: no account, no sign-in, no external OCR API calls.
Does not store personal records, browsing history, screenshots, or extracted text on remote servers.
Processing is done inside the extension runtime using bundled OCR models.
Limitations:

Works on the visible viewport of the current tab.
Accuracy depends on image quality, text size, and contrast.

## Rankings

- #56,493 — Overall
- #16 — ocr

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `tabs`
- `clipboardWrite`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- 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/tiny-ocr?hl=ja)