Vistra: OCR & Translate

About

🌐 A Chrome Manifest V3 extension that brings OCR + translation to web pages, captured screenshots, clipboard images, and selected text.

🚀 Features
🌍 Translate entire page: Popup → Translate Page, or Ctrl/⌘+Shift+Y. Captures the visible viewport, runs OCR on it, and draws the translated text directly over the original, in place.

✂️ Crop & translate: Popup → Crop & Translate, or Ctrl/⌘+Shift+X. Drag a box around any region; the translation is drawn over the original text, with a card showing the detected language and a 🔊 listen button.

📋 Clipboard image translate: Popup → Clipboard tab → paste (Ctrl+V), drop an image, or read from clipboard. OCR runs automatically and draws the translation over the image, Google Lens-style. The raw recognized text also appears in an editable box below the image, so you can correct any OCR misreads and re-translate just that text without redoing OCR.

📝 Text translate: Popup → Text tab, or select text on any page → right-click → Translate with Vistra for an instant floating translation.

🗣️ Copy & listen: Every translated result (Text tab and Clipboard tab) has a one-click copy-to-clipboard button and a 🔊 listen button that reads the translation aloud in the target language via the Web Speech API.

🖼️ Open or download the translated image: Once a clipboard image is translated, you can open a full-size version with the overlay baked in as a single PNG in a new tab, or download it directly with one click.

🏳️ 26 languages, no unreliable auto-detect: The source/target dropdowns list every language OCR.space's recognition engine supports. There's no "detect language" option, since OCR.space has no real auto-detect and silently mangles non-Latin text if you ask it to guess; you pick both languages explicitly, and a swap button flips them.

⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl/⌘+Shift+Y for Translate Page, Ctrl/⌘+Shift+X for Crop & Translate, shown as chips in Settings.

⚙️ Settings: An OCR.space API key field (with show/hide toggle and a one-click connection test) and your language preferences, all synced via chrome.storage.sync.

🔒 Privacy first: Every action (capture, clipboard read, OCR call, translation call) only runs when you explicitly trigger it. Nothing happens passively in the background. See the privacy policy for exactly what data goes where.