Image to Text

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

Image to Text: OCR Add-on for Edge

'Image to Text' is an Edge extension that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to effectively extract text from images. It allows users to edit, search, store, and display the extracted text. It is commonly used by students to digitize printed texts and adept at aiding machine-based processes like text translation, text-to-speech, and data mining.

Add-on stats

By: techlo9
Users: 2,361
130
Rating: 2.80
(5)
Version: 0.1.2 (Last updated: 2021-03-08)
Version code: 0.1.2
Creation date: 2021-03-08
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • notifications
Size: 1.27M

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Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
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Add-on summary

extract text from photos with imagetotext.io Tool

imagetotext.io for Chrome is a free extension which allows you to quickly check the text on images. imagetotext.io use Optical character recognition (OCR) which is a AI powered tool build with Payton to get text of images. Commonly used by students digitizing printed texts so that it can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed online, and used in machine processes such as machine translation, text-to-speech, key data and text mining.

User reviews

it does not work.
by Anthony, 2024-12-03

It didn't work. I selected the text on the screen and the extension popped up a small window to extract the text but then hanged there without extraction.
by Mohammad, 2024-07-11

Excellent work
by Zaheer, 2021-06-11
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Image to Text requires very minimum permissions.

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