TextFromImage - Extract text from images locally

About

TextFromImage helps you copy readable text from images on your device—without sending them to the cloud.

Open the floating panel from the toolbar icon: drop an image, paste from the clipboard (Ctrl+V), or pick a local file. Right-click any image on a web page and choose “Extract text from image (TextFromImage)”. Optionally drag on the preview to crop a text block, then extract. Copy the result or download a .txt file.

What you get
• Local OCR with Tesseract (English + Spanish bundled).
• Web images via context menu (optional per-site permission when required).
• Optional crop before OCR for better accuracy.
• Copy to clipboard or download as .txt.
• Resizable image preview and result areas.
• UI in Spanish or English.

What it does not do
• No cloud OCR APIs—processing stays in your browser.
• No developer backend; images and extracted text are not uploaded to AI4Context servers.
• It does not translate text (planned as a separate extension).

Tips
• For posters or book covers, crop tightly to the text block before extracting.
• The first OCR run may take a few seconds while language models load locally.

Privacy policy: https://mapicallo.github.io/textFromImage/privacy.html