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OCR Image to text - Image Reader

by dongzhuwei1 · Accessibility
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

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

Users
9,000
0 in 30 days
Rating
4.4 / 5
−0.29 in 30 days
Ratings
13
+1 in 30 days
Store rank
#11K
#9,078 among extensions
Version
0.0.1
updated 8 Nov 2022

Users

monthly, 3 years
1005,05010KAug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 9,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
0613Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 13 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About OCR Image to text - Image Reader

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

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%00.00
30 days0+0.0%+1−0.29
6 months+1,000+12.5%0−0.31
1 year+1,000+12.5%+1−0.29

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where OCR Image to text - Image Reader appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
ocr#5−1
text-to-image#27−1

Version history

1 versions recorded
0.0.17 Nov 2022

Details

Category
Accessibility
First seen
7 Nov 2022
Size
3.0 MB
Languages
en-US
Pricing
Free
Extension ID
hoknogdfolliknmnnglffgmfflcdpdih

Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 2, likelihood 1
Permissions
storageunlimitedStorageactiveTabnotificationsscripting
Site access
https://tessdata.projectnaptha.com/*.gzhttps://github.com/naptha/tessdata/blob/gh-pages/*.gz?raw=true

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