What is OCR - Image Reader?
OCR - Image Reader is a pdf extension for chrome. also, it is ocr extension and pdf reader extension. it's a free extension and is featured in Developer Tools, it has 100,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 3.81 from 125 rated user, last update is 637 days ago.
What’s new in version 0.3.5?
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)
How to install OCR - Image Reader?
You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.
Preview of OCR - Image Reader
Technical Features:
- Latest Version: 0.3.5
- Requirements: Windows Chrome, Mac Chrome
- License: Free
- Latest update: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
- Author: brian.girko
OCR - Image Reader Available languages:
English.
FAQ
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What about others talk about ocr - image reader chrome extension?
51% user give 5-star rating, 9% user give 4-star rating, 8% user give 3-star rating, 5% user give 2-star rating, 28% user give 1-star rating. Read reviews of ocr - image reader
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How could i get help if there is something wrong with ocr - image reader chrome extension?
You could find more help information from ocr - image reader support page.
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How could i contact the developer of ocr - image reader chrome extension?
You could send emails to publisher, or check publisher's website.
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What are the required permissions for extensions?
- storage
- unlimitedStorage
- activeTab
- notifications
- scripting
- https://tessdata.projectnaptha.com/*.gz
- https://github.com/naptha/tessdata/blob/gh-pages/*.gz?raw=true
More about manifest_file of ocr - image reader.
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How could i report abuse of ocr - image reader chrome extension?
You could click to report abuse of ocr - image reader.
Reviews of ocr - image reader:
Acceptable, but it's prone to some corruption like most OCR programs are. It's not as good as the apple gallery OCR, but pretty good
It errors: SecurityError: Failed to execute 'open' on 'CacheStorage': An attempt was made to break through the security policy of the user agent. errorHandler @ chrome-extension://bhbhjjkcoghibhibegcmbomkbakkpdbo/data/engine/index.js:23 (anonymous) @ chrome-extension://bhbhjjkcoghibhibegcmbomkbakkpdbo/data/engine/tesseract/tesseract.min.js:2 t.onmessage @ chrome-extension://bhbhjjkcoghibhibegcmbomkbakkpdbo/data/engine/tesseract/tesseract.min.js:2
It's working fine but slow.