Project Naptha

Project Naptha

Highlight, copy, edit, and translate text from any image on the web.

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What is Project Naptha?

Project Naptha is an innovative Edge add-on designed to elevate your online experience by enabling you to interact with text within images as easily as with standard web text. It uses advanced computer vision algorithms to seamlessly and intuitively recognize text in images, giving you the power to highlight, copy, edit, and even translate such text. It also facilitates user privacy and data security by processing OCR locally on your device.

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Stats
Stats date:
Rating: 3.10 (16)
Version: 0.9.4 (Last updated: 2020-04-28)
Creation date: 2020-04-28
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • clipboardWrite
  • clipboardRead
  • storage
  • contextMenus
  • tts
  • <all_urls>
Size: 442.33K
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

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Project Naptha
Project Naptha (v0.9.5)
3.62 (1,758) 450,926
Not available on Firefox
Merlin
Summary

Live Demo: http://projectnaptha.com/

Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image.

Words on the web exist in two forms: there’s the text of articles, emails, tweets, chats and blogs— which can be copied, searched, translated, edited and selected— and then there’s the text which is shackled to images, found in comics, document scans, photographs, posters, charts, diagrams, screenshots and memes. Interaction with this second type of text has always been a second class experience, the only way to search or copy a sentence from an image would be to do as the ancient monks did, manually transcribing regions of interest.

You can watch as moving your cursor over a block of words changes it into the little I-beam. You can drag over a few lines and watch as a semitransparent blue box highlights the text, helping you keep track of where you are and what you’re reading. Hit Ctrl+C to copy the text, where you can paste it into a search bar, a Word document, an email or a chat window. Right-click and you can erase the words from an image, edit the words, or even translate it into a different language.

Security & Privacy: Project Naptha handles OCR and text detection locally on your computer. When highlighting text, the extension checks a remote server to determine whether a public high quality transcription exists using a cryptographic hash of the URL (this includes no cookies, user tokens, or any identifying information, and the server is incapable of storing access logs). For more information, read the section on security and privacy on http://projectnaptha.com/

User reviews
简中繁中Error: No OCR Servers Available。功能是挺好用,但服务器貌似挂了,用不了了。
by 礼涵, 2023-07-14

Good! Also, can you add more language? I'm needing Chinese and by that I installed this
by Vân, 2022-07-07

Barely Works at all.
by MuhammadHadi, 2022-06-15
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Safety
Risk impact

Project Naptha is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Project Naptha if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Project Naptha has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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