CopyFish

Extract & translate text from images/videos/PDF on any website. Common reasons to extract text from images are if you want to google the text, store it, email it or translate it. Until now, our only option was to retype the text.

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extract & translate text from images/videos/pdf on any website.

common reasons to extract text from images are if you want to google the text, store it, email it or translate it. until now, our only option was to retype the text. copyfish is sooooo much faster.

for those of us that have issues with reading (small) text, copyfish gives you the ability to use a screen reader on text inside images.

“images” come in all kinds of forms: photographs, charts, diagrams, screenshots, pdf documents, comics, dialog boxes, memes, scans, flash – and youtube movies.

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Firefox extension Screenshot OCR PDF OCR Image to text

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The Best 47 CopyFish Alternatives

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