OCR Image to text - Image Reader for Google Chrome

OCR Image to text - Image Reader

OCR Image to text - Image Reader is a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) extension for Chrome. This extension allows users to capture and convert images to text with ease. By adding a toolbar button to the browser, users can perform OCR by selecting a region in the active window. The extension then utilizes the internal OCR engine, Tesseract, to recognize text within the selected region.

One of the key features of this extension is its support for over 100 languages, automatic text orientation, and script detection. Additionally, it loads the necessary JavaScript library on the page and removes it after use, ensuring efficient resource usage. It is worth noting that the extension may take a few minutes to fetch training data from the internet on the first run, but subsequent calls will be fast due to caching.

With OCR being a slow process, this extension provides a progress bar for each detection module, giving users visibility on the ongoing OCR process. Furthermore, it performs the OCR process offline, without any server-side interaction, and only fetches the language training database once.

The OCR Image to text - Image Reader extension is a versatile tool that can be used to extract text content from various sources such as images, PDF documents, Powerpoint slides, or even web pages where user selection is prohibited. In case of low text extraction confidence, the extension offers the option to invert the image and retry, which is particularly useful when using a dark theme. Additionally, if the text extraction is not accurate, users can modify the image and drop it into the interface for another attempt.

Overall, OCR Image to text - Image Reader is an impressive extension that provides a convenient and efficient solution for capturing and converting images to text. Whether you need to extract text from images, documents, or web pages, this extension offers a powerful OCR engine with versatile features.