SnapScribe — Text from Image

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SnapScribe — Text from Image lets you extract text from any image, screenshot, photo, chart, or on-screen area in seconds — no cloud, no account, no internet required after first use.

★ HOW IT WORKS

1. Click the SnapScribe icon in Chrome's toolbar
2. Click "Select Area" in the popup
3. Draw a rectangle around the text you need
4. OCR runs instantly — text is copied to your clipboard
5. A result panel shows the extracted text, ready to paste anywhere

★ KEY FEATURES

• Fully local OCR powered by Tesseract.js (open-source, no server calls)
• Works on any webpage — articles, PDFs, web apps, social media, code screenshots
• Supports 100+ languages: English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and more
• Language data downloaded once and cached — works offline after first use
• Clean dark-themed result panel that doesn't interfere with the page
• Extraction history — review and re-copy recent results from the popup
• No API key, no account, no data leaves your browser

★ PRIVACY

All processing happens entirely in your browser using WebAssembly.
No images or text are ever sent to any server. No analytics. No tracking.

★ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED

• activeTab — capture a screenshot of the current tab when you click the button
• scripting — inject the selection overlay into the page
• offscreen — run the OCR engine in an isolated background document
• storage — remember your language preference and extraction history
• clipboardWrite — copy extracted text to your clipboard