Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.
Do you need to extract text from images, videos or PDF? If yes, then the Copyfish Screenshot Reader is for you. Copyfish turns text within any image captured from your screen into an editable format without retyping – making it easy to reuse in digital documents, emails or reports.
Common reasons to extract text from images are to google it, store it, email it or translate it. Until now, your only option was to retype the text. Copyfish is soooo much faster and more fun.
“Images” come in many forms: photographs, charts, diagrams, screenshots, PDF documents, comics, error messages, memes, Flash – and Youtube movies.
You can verify the results in one glance with the extracted text overlay.
Do you need to switch between OCR languages often? You can define "Quick Switch" buttons for up to three languages on the settings page.
For language learners: There are many translator addons available, but they only work with plain website text. Text inside images, in tricky Javascript/AJAX or, especially, in movie subtitles on Youtube or Youku is unreachable for them. But not for Copyfish. And if you want, Copyfish also translates the text for you. Especially for the subtitle translation use case, Copyfish has a repeat feature. Mark the area of the subtitle once and then use the "Do OCR" button to grab the latest text from the movie screen.
For extension gurus: You might have heard of Project Naptha, a great addon that applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. Copyfish solves the same problem, but it takes a different user interface approach. It does not try to alter the website. Instead, it lets you mark the text in the image you want to extract. As a result Copyfish works with every website, even videos and PDF documents.
For developers: Copyfish is published under the GPL open-source license. As OCR software, it uses the free OCR API from https://ocr.space/ .
QUESTIONS? SUGGESTIONS? Please email [email protected]
Latest reviews
- (2024-04-15) McMaster: Büyük-küçük harf desteği de getirilmesi gerek. Sadece büyük harfle yazım açık olmamalı. Gayet güzel bir program yorum dikkate alınırsa sevinirim. Bir de yazıları desteklerken bir cümlenin tamamını düzgün sıralamalı.
- (2023-12-23) Matthijs Hilgers: It is a superb and easy to use app. My request for the developers however, would be making this work on Chromebooks. When in tablet mode, without a mouse, I cannot create a rectangle to translate something on screen, rendering the app effectively useless with how I normally use my device.
- (2023-11-07) Joel Joseph: The OCR seems to work but its useless because its not getting copied into clipboard in anyway. command+c, "copy to clipboard" not working.. when i paste i get nothing. im using chrome in macos sonoma 14.0
- (2023-10-18) Thien Thai: Work without require sign up account, free trial, or input credit card.
- (2023-10-14) Josue Bonilla: Its a very good app but it never works on pdf documents. Fix this issue and it would be 5 stars.
- (2023-10-06) Antonio Jarbas: Muitos erros, se não quiser perder tempo aconselho usar outro.
- (2023-10-05) robert calin: Great on Brave
- (2023-10-04) Simon Supersad: doesn't work on the only website i need it for. keep getting the prompt saying "If this message does not disappear, try reloading the page. Or use the desktop screenshot feature."
- (2023-09-14) s chaudhry: would be awesome if it didnt break every 5 seconds
- (2023-09-12) Виталий: Selecting an area on the phone does not work (Kiwi browser)
- (2023-09-07) N R: it works!!
- (2023-08-25) Joseph Ocampo: Does exactly what I needed it for which is to extract text from and image. Sweet and simple.
- (2023-08-11) john msc: It works as intended without problems, and it saves me the time and effort reading novels from other languages. And I recommend it for people who want to learn new language by copy pasting text from the video and translate then enjoy your learning or entertainment journey
- (2023-08-10) ember: trash
- (2023-07-21) Kalash Acharya: Works fine for me as expected.
- (2023-07-19) Dorant Kecmezi: I love it, it really helps me to finish my tasks faster. Also I appreciate it that it's free!
- (2023-07-11) hono wofo: Not perfect, but really great. I use it everyday and it's very accurate and I don't know what I'd do without it. Thanks for making this!
- (2023-07-05) Vân Đồng: good app
- (2023-06-28) tonho: Serve se vc n tiver outra opção, ele erra muito
- (2023-06-28) Matheus Castilho: Muito bom.
- (2023-06-23) Malik Dilbaz Khan: Worst experience
- (2023-06-23) Pablo Chavez: Great app, especially useful with desktop version. My only complaint is that I wish there was a way I can disable it from opening new tabs
- (2023-06-23) ᄀᄀᄀ: Good but really need to remove Newline characters. it's so annoying when you try to translate.
- (2023-06-12) Maib Hassin: Does the job. Didn't face any bugs like other people have described. My only issue is that sometimes it is extremely slow.
- (2023-06-09) Ianis 737: me va bien, sale algun que otro fallo pero en si va bien
- (2023-06-07) ROSA MIRIAN HERNANDEZ GONZALEZ: esta horrible no sirve para copiar texto de un video
- (2023-06-07) peace: works fine & easy to use but could be better on UI design as it makes the process not efficient.
- (2023-06-02) Cem Tari: eklentilerde bundan hızlısını göremedim, ben beğendim 5 yıldız verdim , emeği geçenlere teşekkür ederim.
- (2023-05-31) Danny Flood: Unfortunately like every other extension I have tried it doesn't work. When you use the app or try to right-click on an image and use the app, it always gives an error message: "If this message does not disappear, try reloading the page. Or use the desktop screenshot feature." Reloading the page doesn't do anything and there's no workaround.
- (2023-05-30) MD Naimul Islam Naim: good extension🥰
- (2023-05-29) Halil Atak: Açık kaynak olması takdire şayan.
- (2023-05-15) ALEX R M: funciona
- (2023-05-14) Волошин Олександр: все працює ідеально
- (2023-05-07) Abah Azul: Cukup membantu meng-OCR teks pada file PDF yang dibuka dari Google Drive.
- (2023-05-06) Nagen Rai: your extension sucks. i need to format text. where it is paragraph it dont know. it writes in single line continuously without pharagraph and i have to press enter for next paragraph. It can't understand where is paragraph. and lastly it mistake. we cannot guarantee write according to youtube. so this app pissed me off. i was angry,annoyed by this app. bad apps.
- (2023-04-27) Izabel Castro Choc: no abre en muchas ocasiones
- (2023-04-23) piroq: It is not useful. Because it don't work normally. it usually display error.
- (2023-04-16) Hải Phạm: Need "Close" button, good app
- (2023-04-16) aln: Simple, rapide, efficace !
- (2023-04-12) Huy Tuong: Why can't the software be used? When the display user loses connection
- (2023-04-02) dov rob: gets the job done
- (2023-04-02) Md Mahir Islam: Good, does the job properly! But it would be great if it would have the option to capture full page screenshot and done the ocr at once.
- (2023-03-11) JOHNNY: No entiendo en teoría es Open source pero tiene opciones premium que no se pueden usar
- (2023-03-11) Kamal Zaitar: slow but does the job, i guess because of my internet network
- (2023-03-09) Nathan Bloomfield: Helpful.
- (2023-03-06) Lasha Sulaberidze: Works fine!
- (2023-03-03) Hansse: welp it does as advertised. overall a very useful tool!
- (2023-02-24) adiseshu naik: Great help
- (2023-02-13) Skargash: works exactly as I expected thanks!
- (2023-02-11) Alius CC: Very powerful tool for language learning, sometimes it does take a few captures for it to detect the correct text. I do wish they have a "dark mode" though, all my browser are in dark mode. But every time I open Copyfish a get flashbang a bit....