ORC Text Snap

Extract text from images with Optical Character Recognition

What is ORC Text Snap?

ORC Text Snap is a Chrome extension developed by Jofen, and its main feature is "Extract text from images with Optical Character Recognition".

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Download ORC Text Snap Extension CRX File

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Extension Usage Instructions

                        Optical Character Recognition - Copy text from any image, video or PDF
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A handy tool to extract text from images, videos or PDF with just one click and crop instead of retyping the text character by character. A tipical use case is to copy any text from youtube videos, image formatted tutorials.

This tool copies text from images using the lightweight OCR engine [Tesseract.js](https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js).

How to use it:
1. Click the icon, then select the area/image containing the text. 
2. Wait until the tool to extract the text for you.
3. Extracted result will show in a text box. You can then click the copy button to load it into your Clipboard and Ctrl + V to paste it anywhere.
4. There is an option to translate the extracted text into your selected language.
5. You can define the ORC language and targeted translation languages on the options page.                    

Extension Basic Information

Name ORC Text Snap ORC Text Snap
ID cjcbfnbbhjipgbbncobdgdpphnlalife
Official URL https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/orc-text-snap/cjcbfnbbhjipgbbncobdgdpphnlalife
Description Extract text from images with Optical Character Recognition
File Size 236 KB
Installation Count 1,886
Current Version 1.1
Last Updated 2022-09-17
Publish Date 2019-08-27
Rating 2.00/5 Total 5 Ratings
Developer Jofen
Email [email protected]
Payment Type free
Supported Languages en
manifest.json
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    "manifest_version": 2,
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        },
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    },
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        "open_in_tab": false,
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    },
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        "48": "images\/icon48.png",
        "128": "images\/icon128.png"
    },
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            },
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        }
    },
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        "clipboardWrite"
    ],
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            ],
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            ],
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