Why should you use online tools if you can extract text from image through the comfort of your web browser? Modern internet browsers like Firefox and Google chrome have 1000′s of extensions for the users. These addons can be considered as patches that improve the functionality of a software. One such extension is project naptha. This recently launched plugin allows user to copy paste texts wrapped within any picture of a web page. It uses revolutionary algorithms to read characters encompassed within any digital image and it pastes them on the OS clipboard. Once the plugin has been installed on Chrome, all you have to do is hover your mouse cursor over any image on a webpage, select the text you wanna copy, right click on your mouse or track-pad and select copy text menu.
You can even translate the copied content on the fly. Whether its a picture embedded within an email, animated GIF or a screenshot, naptha works without any flaws. As of now, this extension is available only for Chrome browser, the developers will release its Firefox version soon.
Similar functionality can be achieved though the below 3 best OCR softwares for Windows 7, 8.1, 8, XP OS:
Online OCR: This is an awesome online utility that can extract text from image as well as PDF files. You have to upload a picture with recognizable characters. When scanning is done, output result can be downloaded in excel, word or plain text file formats.
Cognitive OpenOCR: This utility carefully scans an image to find human readable characters. It can recognize texts of 20 different languages. OpenOCR has a wizard that will guide you in the extraction process.
Free OCR: This is an online tool that accepts user input as images stored on hard drive. It uploads the image to the server which hosts the site and it scans the picture to produce output on the fly.
Hi Pankaj,
That’s really great if you can extract text from images. We all know that our technology is evolving and this is the clear example of it.