ORC Text Snap

SUMMARY

Optical Character Recognition - Copy text from any image, video or PDF
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A handy tool to extract text from images, videos or PDF with just one click and crop instead of retyping the text character by character. A tipical use case is to copy any text from youtube videos, image formatted tutorials.

This tool copies text from images using the lightweight OCR engine [Tesseract.js](https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js).

How to use it:
1. Click the icon, then select the area/image containing the text.
2. Wait until the tool to extract the text for you.
3. Extracted result will show in a text box. You can then click the copy button to load it into your Clipboard and Ctrl + V to paste it anywhere.
4. There is an option to translate the extracted text into your selected language.
5. You can define the ORC language and targeted translation languages on the options page.

The latest version of ORC Text Snap is available on the Chrome web and is currently being used by 1,000 active users. The initial version was launched on 2019-08-27.

HOW TO INSTALL ORC Text Snap FROM A CRX FILE

1. Download ORC Text Snap CRX file
2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to download the ZIP file instead
3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer mode

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