OCR - Image Reader

CRX ID
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Status
Live on Store
Description from extension meta

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

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OCR - Image Reader
Description from store

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)

Latest reviews

Paulo Gutierrez 2025-10-02

Not accurate

Gfa Ibra 2025-09-30

very useful

VISHAL 2025-08-24

Bad expriance

Nouman Khan 2025-08-08

its not working for me, can anybody help out?

Paulo Augusto Lacerda 2025-07-15

Perfect!

Eddie Cale 2025-06-24

This is the best OCR extension I've ever seen. It never disappoints and always reads the text correctly. Highly recommended.

Jishnu Omanakuttan 2025-05-28

This extension fairly work with Malayalam. Good!

Rafael Molina 2025-05-11

It's not working on youtube, it shows a SecurityError about executing "open" on "CacheStorage" and something about breaking the security policy of the user agent

Udhaya Kumar (Lazy Guy) 2025-05-01

One feedback. Sometimes the language change dropdown collapses continuously before we click on / select / change any other language. It takes some time or have to close and open the chrome to not collapse while selecting another languages. Other than that Awesome extension.

Zichen Wang 2025-04-05

Love it! Thanks for creating and sharing it.

Don Smith 2025-04-04

Exactly what I was looking for. Very useful and unobtrusive.

sampath kumar 2025-03-31

Awesome extension. Does its job

Athul 2025-03-20

I Have been using it for long no problem works great , recognizes most of the text better than other reader fro me it works perfect and well

Cameron Madden 2025-03-08

This thing rocks! Just use it directly from the website you're looking at with a button at the top of your Chrome browser screen. Even comes with a "copy text" button. So 4 steps are needed, click the button at the top of your screen, select the area where the text you need is located, click on the "copy text" button and, paste it into the other app/program you're working on that needs the text you copied. Tried other online tools and they weren't very good. Just use this and save a lot of time and hassle.

Brian Mellyn 2025-02-16

Amazingly easy and accurate. Way better than the previous OCR plugin I was using. I love that it allows you to draw a window to be super precious on what you want transcribed

Navdeep S 2025-02-09

Best tool

Dalvizar 2025-01-20

Very usefull for my work!

Farshid Pirpakajaki 2024-12-31

Perfect

jin 2024-12-26

thanks its the only one that works for me at the moment

Panteleimon Kurylenko 2024-12-17

Great extension, please continue to support it.I use it every day!

bright D 2024-11-25

accurate and fast, a great OCR tool.

Marco Silva 2024-11-17

It works great mate, thank you very much.

Jamshaid ismail 2024-11-13

Really good.

Syed Peer Badshah Bukhari Bukhari 2024-11-06

High Buddy Its Great But Can You Make It More Efficient to also copy math Equations as Plain Text...

Mubashar Ahmad Khan 2024-10-24

What a great extenion for Chrome it is. Great woork, thanks developpers.

Muhammad Rashad Yusuf 2024-10-20

Nice OCR, high accuracy

Mazen Mahmoud 2024-10-14

just perfect , good job

hacK Piyawit 2024-10-03

Great stuff

Al 2024-09-25

useful, simple, work on youtube

Melon Lord 2024-08-06

Simply the best

Ahmed Aqaar 2024-08-02

Works perfectlly

Hamilan Sadath 2024-07-29

VERY BAD

Boni 2024-07-11

Works perfect. 5 stars

Aaron Stier-Cohen 2024-07-10

doesn't work

Steven Wong 2024-07-03

I was able to extract youtube lecture notes with ease. Thank you!

Denis Bronskii 2024-06-20

Actually works, bypassed text copying with this 100%

Marwan 2024-06-18

Perfect! It works with any language.

Ronald Bremer 2024-06-09

Does great work on webpages I wonder if it could be adapted to do OCR on pdfs that open in the browser

Alaa Alrahhal 2024-06-03

GREAT WORK WITH ARABIC TOO

Huỳnh Lam 2024-05-08

works perfectly! detect Chinese characters very well even some English words when choosing Chinese language. Convenient <3

Noah Vickers 2024-04-26

Does not work. Icon does not appear in Chrome as described. Uninstalled.

Ahmed kamal 2024-04-23

best one

Steven Gates 2024-03-26

Absolutely Brilliant! I really miss not having Google Lens in Google Chrome Browser running on a PC. It is kind of there - but you have to click on a picture on the page rather than capture the whole page. On a cell phone, I can screen capture any page, share that with Lens and then any text that is present is highlighted and I can sweep across what I want and copy the text into a notepad. I actually use this in Spotify to grab a copy of all music tracks in a playlist. (Beats having to manually type it all into a note on a small cell phone!) The Google Lens for PC Chrome browser doesn't work at all the same. It is, at this point, totally useless. HOWEVER this extension DOES WORK! I first tried using it like I do with Google Lens on a cell phone - grabbing a Spotify page where a first column lists the track name with the artist underneath and a second column with the album title. That didn't work so hot, resulting in a hodgepodge of text. So I tried just copying the first column alone... PERFECT! Absolutely Spot On!

Alasd Ameer 2024-03-22

It's very very good.

S 9K32 2024-02-26

very simple and easy to use; accessible with one click in the browser

mr. j 2024-01-25

in my use I find its better than CopyFish (I use CopyFish for years) its not perfect but back me up almost 95% of the time. also its detect Bangla really well. keep it up.

Shuvo Sarkar 2024-01-11

Better than CopyFish. Keep it up and keep improving.

Conversion Thoughts 2023-12-24

not good at all. Doesn't work with the text and will keep on fetching and recognizing and at the end, literally nothing.

gio 2023-12-15

Amazing and really useful

Nittala Ruthvik 2023-12-14

For PDFs, I take the screenshot of the pdf, paste in my Google Doc and then use OCR Tool. It works. I've been using this extention from a very long time. Probably the best tool ever. Thanks Dev team!!!

Statistics

Installs
200,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
Rating
4.06 (228 votes)
Last update
2025-09-09
Version 0.4.5
Languages