Copyfish turns text within any image captured from your screen into an editable format without retyping making it easy to reuse in digital documents, emails or reports. Common reasons to extract text from images are to google it, store it, email it or translate it.
How do I extract text from an image in Chrome?
- Usually, you use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to extract text from an image.
- Alternatively, you can paste chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features into the Omnibox, and then press Enter to go directly to the flag.
How do I use Project Naptha extension?
If you'd like to use Project Naptha to edit images on your computer, you'll need to visit Chrome's Extensions page and enable the "Allow access to file URLs" option for Project Naptha. Drag and drop the image files from your hard drive into a Chrome tab and you can then edit them.
How do I translate an image in Chrome?
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More. Settings.
- At the bottom, click Advanced.
- Click Languages.
- Next to the language you'd like to use, click More .
- Turn Offer to translate pages in this language on or off.
How do you use Copyfish extension?
- Install the extension and click the Copyfish icon in your Chrome browser.
- Select the area with the text (image, video, html5, ajax - Copyfish works with any input)
- Done! Copyfish extracts the text from the image, displays and translates it.
Does Project Naptha work on pdfs?
This extension called Project Naptha, is useful when you have to quickly search a string inside the image or change text on PDF file or even translate part of text that is in other language. And Right click on it will give you various options like copy, edit or translate the text.
How does Copyfish work?
Copyfish displays the OCR result in red on top of the original text in the image. We call this text overlay. And if you double-click the overlay, a copy of it opens in a new tab. That makes it easier to verify larger screenshots, as it avoids scrolling.
How can I extract text from an image?
- Right-click the picture, and click Copy Text from Picture.
- Click where you'd like to paste the copied text, and then press Ctrl+V.