MonaLens: extract text from images

Capture text from images using the screenshot functionality and translate it✨

As of May 2026, MonaLens: extract text from images has 4 users in the Education category.

Usersup 33.3 percent+33.3%
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Version
0.6.5
Manifest V3

History

4 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

5.1642.84Apr 1, 2026May 31, 2026
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DateUsersRatingReviewsVersion
Apr 1, 202630.6.5
Apr 21, 202640.6.5
May 6, 202640.6.5
May 17, 202650.6.5
Now40.6.5

Permissions & access

Permissions
activeTabtabsstorage
Host access
None declared

Screenshots

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About

MonaLens is designed for language learners, especially for Asian languages where characters are difficult to identify visually.🈚️

Simply click the SCREENSHOT button at the top left ⛶ and select any part of the webpage to extract text. To achieve accurate results, please specify the language of the image.Text is saved for the current session, and you can easily copy it to the clipboard. 
With the click of a button translate the extracted text using the BUILT-IN TRANSLATION🌐 interface. 


Technical details🔧:
MonaLens uses Tesseract locally as OCR model with preprocessing to achieve better results in text extraction. 
⚠️Text is translated using native Chrome GeminiAI API. Only available for Chrome >= 138 
✔️MonaLens runs locally and does not requiere host permissions.

Technical

Version
0.6.5
Manifest
V3
Size
20.22MiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
2
Featured
No

Metadata

ID
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Developer ID
ud87f35528d3dd3d0c8470b9b26e0a292
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Aug 1, 2025
Last Updated (Store)
Aug 4, 2025
Last Scraped
May 31, 2026
Website
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