OCR - Image Reader OCR - Image Reader

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Version: 0.3.5
Last Update: 2023-02-23

Overview

OCR - Image Reader is a Chrome extension developed by brian.girko. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of OCR - Image Reader is 0.3.5, updated on 2023-02-23.
100,000+ users have installed this extension. 127 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

A powerful optical character recognition (OCR) extension to capture and convert images to text

This extension adds a toolbar button to your browser to perform OCR. When this action button is pressed, it allows the user to select a region in the currently active window. The extension captures the area and tries to recognize text inside this region using the internal powerful OCR engine (Tesseract engine). This extension uses the "tesseract.js" library that supports more than 100 languages, automatic text orientation, and script detection.

This extension loads the JS library on the page and removes it when you are done. This way, there is no long-term resource usage.

Notes:
1. On the first run, the extension might take a few minutes to fetch the training data from the internet. Since this resource is cached, all subsequent calls are going to be fast.
2. Optical character recognition (OCR) is slow, so this extension displays a progress bar for each detection module.
3. This extension does the OCR process offline. There is no server-side interaction. It only fetches the language training database once.
4. This tool can be used to extract the text content out of images, PDF documents, Powerpoint slides, or extract the content of a web page when user-section is forbidden.
5. If the text extraction confidence is low, the extension inverts the image and retries (particularly useful on the dark theme)
6. If the text extraction is not accurate, you can modify the image and drop it into the interface to retry.

Change Logs:
Version 0.2.4:
Supports browser-level page zooming and OS-level screen zooming
Adds image language detection (still beta) (slow operation)

Rating

127 ratings

Total Installs

100,000+

Information

Last Update

2023-02-23

Current Version

0.3.5

Size

3.07MiB

Author

brian.girko

Website

None

Category

Developer Tools

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avatar Mari Mar!
2022-05-08

Perfect translation text from an image
For the copied to the text - select in the upper right corner (open in Google Translator) https://translate.yandex.ru/ocr
example: https://screenrec.com/share/HP7WCcRqnI or https://prnt.sc/Rq8KDvnKrSOD

avatar Ahmd Eisa
2022-05-08

I want to copy a code from youtube video and it didn't work

avatar BIG Smoke
2022-04-23

Sometimes never runs. When it does run, it glitches out and half of it is just random letters.

avatar Levan Matskhonashvili
2022-03-30

It is a great tool, Very useful.

avatar Attiq Khan
2022-03-12

Thanks, solved my problem