Image Reader (OCR)

Easily get words out of an image with OCR engine!

What is Image Reader (OCR)?

Image Reader (OCR) is a Chrome extension developed by Sevina, and its main feature is "Easily get words out of an image with OCR engine!".

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Extension Usage Instructions

                        Image Reader (OCR) extension helps you easily get words out of any image. It uses an open-source OCR library called Tesseract. Tesseract.js is an open-source JavaScript library and is made via an Emscripten port of the famous Tesseract OCR Engine written in C and C++. Please visit (https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js) to get more info.

To work with this addon, simply open the addon's interface and load your image via the file selector (top section). Before using the addon, please make sure to select the appropriate OCR language. Default OCR language is set to English.

Note: this addon uses the "https://github.com/naptha/tessdata/tree/gh-pages/" GitHub repo to fetch language data required for the OCR operation. Language data packs are very large and cannot be included in the addon package.

To report bugs, please fill the bug report form on the extension's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/image-reader.html).                    

Extension Basic Information

Name Image Reader (OCR) Image Reader (OCR)
ID cakcfocedphbadddjpalejbkhflfbhmf
Official URL https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/image-reader-ocr/cakcfocedphbadddjpalejbkhflfbhmf
Description Easily get words out of an image with OCR engine!
File Size 7.51 MB
Installation Count 31,444
Current Version 0.1.7
Last Updated 2023-12-07
Publish Date 2019-08-27
Rating 3.85/5 Total 20 Ratings
Developer Sevina
Email [email protected]
Payment Type free
Extension Website https://mybrowseraddon.com/image-reader.html
Help Page URL https://mybrowseraddon.com/image-reader.html
Privacy Policy Page URL https://mybrowseraddon.com/privacy-policy/developer/sevina.html
Supported Languages en
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