Right-click any image or screenshot in Chrome to copy its text
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According to OpenAITools.app telemetry verified on 2026-11-11, OCR Text Recognition (chromewebstore.google.com) is an AI platform indexed under AI OCR generating 0 monthly visits with a month-over-month traffic delta of +0 (0.0%). Its primary geographic market is Global (— traffic share), and it operates on a Free pricing model. Top competing alternatives by monthly volume include Image to Text (4.87M visits/mo), Image to Text Converter (181.47K visits/mo), Image to Text CC (308.3K visits/mo).
Gets the job done on simple screenshots, but struggles hard with weird fonts.
Missed half my text.
Super fast right-click shortcut. Saves me from opening separate web tools.
Formatting gets completely mangled when copying multi-column text.
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Right-click any image on a web page and the extension identifies the text inside it without saving or opening the file separately.
Right-click anywhere else on the page to launch a custom screenshot region selector and recognise text from that area.
The extension operates from the browser context menu, so it does not take up toolbar space or require a pop-up window.
Uses an OCR engine to convert picture-based characters into copyable text for reuse in documents or search.
All processing is initiated from the page itself with no separate app, upload form or account required.
OCR Text Recognition takes the friction out of reading text trapped inside images. Instead of downloading a picture, opening a separate OCR website and uploading it, you simply right-click the image where it sits and select the recognition option. The extension reads the characters and returns them as text you can copy.
The second mode covers the harder case: text that is not in a single image at all, such as a rendered chart, a canvas element or a locked web page. Right-click on empty page space, choose Screenshot Recognition Text, and drag a region; the extension runs OCR on that crop.
The extension was last updated in April 2025, carries version 2.1.5, and reports about 7,000 users. It is published by the independent developer tomxuxu and is free to use. It is a small, focused utility for English and Simplified Chinese users rather than a full document-processing suite.
Read text from a graphic, infographic or locked page without retyping it by hand.
Highlight a chart, slide or screenshot region and lift the numbers or labels out for a report.
Grab short snippets of text from images for translation or search without opening another tool.
Side-by-side telemetry comparison of competing AI tools in the same primary category
| Rank | AI Tool | Monthly Visits | MoM Growth | Direct traffic share | Pricing | Head-to-Head |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | OCR Text Recognition | 0 | — | — | Free | Current |
| 1 | Image to Text | 4.87M | +0.8% | 25% direct | Freemium | vs Image to Text |
| 2 | Image to Text Converter | 181.47K | -15.6% | 46% direct | Freemium | vs Image to Text Converter |
| 3 | Image to Text CC | 308.3K | +0.6% | 21% direct | Freemium | vs Image to Text CC |
| 4 | Image to Text Converter | 699.5K | +8.7% | 30% direct | Freemium | vs Image to Text Converter |
| 5 | ReadImage | 0 | — | — | Free | vs ReadImage |
| 6 | JPG to Text | 425K | -13.4% | 14% direct | Freemium | vs JPG to Text |
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