Easily get words out of an image with OCR engine!
Image Reader (OCR) extension help you easily get words out of any image. It uses an open-source OCR library called Tesseract.
Tesseract.js is an open-source JavaScript library and is made via an Emscripten port of the famous Tesseract OCR Engine written in C and C++. Please visit (https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js) to get more info.
In order to work with this add-on, simply open the add-on's UI and load your image via the file selector (top left corner). A sample scenario is also included in the package to test the add-on (press on the "sample" button at the top toolbar). Before using the add-on, please make sure to select the appropriate OCR language. Default OCR language is set to English.
Note: this add-on uses: "https://github.com/naptha/tessdata/tree/gh-pages/3.02"
GitHub repo in order to fetch language data required for the OCR operation. Language data packs are very large in size and cannot be included in the add-on’s package.
In order to report bugs, please fill the bug report form in the extension's homepage (http://mybrowseraddon.com/image-reader.html).
