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OCR Scanner Extension

by vncat

v0.1.2 Updated May 2, 2025 2.87MiB
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3K
Users
★ 3.43
37 reviews
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Description

An optical character recognition (OCR) extension to extract text from snapshot. This extension can be used as an OCR tool when reading protected pdf files on Chrome. This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar. After user clicks on the button and select a region, the extension captures the snapshot from the region, recognize text inside this region, and return the result to the user.
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Reviews (15 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2022-12-08
Mohamed Anan

The best OCR extension, BUT it collect our emails! Look at the Permission: "Know your email address"

★☆☆☆☆2022-05-30
sully pwz

keep show up the texts "# Cannot get configuration. Please turn on sync in your Chrome and reinstall the extension" cannot use it.

★☆☆☆☆2022-05-07
Sobon George

Not working. Every time I try to select a text I get this error: # Cannot get configuration. Please turn on sync in your Chrome and reinstall the extension

★☆☆☆☆2022-02-23
Miguel vera

They ruined it, it is no longer free (I think it was at the beginning) now you have to pay after using it I don't know how many times per month. I used this to translate manga I follow from English to Spanish.

★☆☆☆☆2022-02-17
無無

it can't work.

★☆☆☆☆2022-02-04
元無名

It stopped working for me too, I don't know why.

★★☆☆☆2022-09-28
Sanjay Sidar

it dosen t worked for pdf <<<<<<

★★☆☆☆2022-06-28
ABDULLAH ABUHAIMED

Doesn't work on Brave browser When I use it it shows me a message saying (# Cannot get configuration. Please turn on sync in your Chrome and reinstall the extension) please fix

★★★☆☆2022-09-17
Liran Barsisa

Works for some places, but not for videos.

★★★☆☆2022-07-25
Hùng Bùi Văn

After a period of use, I can no longer use it? Error: # You have reached the scan limit in a month. Request more scans at https://ocr.catvu.io

★★★☆☆2022-04-16
Vance Cassin

I used to love this extension. But since it started asking for money and chrome sync (which isn't possible on browsers like Brave) it feels just bad. I am not saying that asking money for your service is bad thing but there are a lot of OCR softwares out there any on an average 2000 people use this extension, hardly any money can be collected from this. It was just awesome 6 months ago. No slow recognition, no asking for money, no login require.

★★★☆☆2022-04-08
The5armdamput33

I have been trying to use it to read manga online, and while that might not be the intended function, I think it would still help if it was able to read vertical text, because often Japanese and Chinese is written vertically... Instead of reading the text as it is meant to be read, the app reads the first character of each line horizontally, followed by the next character of each line and so on... This makes an incomprehensible mess that is impossible to read... - Using the above paragraph as an example: "Ihm noe srs tis ez aot..." (if read vertically)

★★★☆☆2022-02-01
Ahri

It worked perfectly fine, full images took a while but short sentences were quick. BUT it hasnt worked a few weeks now, just loading!

★★★☆☆2022-01-20
Ashraf Kazi

it was good but after update it's on scanning screen for so long it doesn't work at all wow great now it show language not supported

★★★☆☆2021-11-03
Sanjay Melkani

While the OCR is the best I've come across and also, one of the fastest, it's bugging my mind that it doesn't allow me to copy the scanned text. It's of no use to me if I can't copy the text. I have to instead type the text which I can do even without this OCR. Please developer look into this problem. I don't want to remove it because it's the best in its business but currently, it's useless to me. I hope you'll make the amendments. Thank you for your valuable efforts into this.

Permissions (2)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.1.2
Updated May 2, 2025
Size 2.87MiB
First Seen Mar 29, 2026