Snaptext Ocr Image To Tex Chrome extension icon

Snaptext Ocr Image To Tex

📦 v1.0.0
💾 15.85MiB
📅 2026-03-10
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Overview

SnapText OCR turns any image into selectable, copyable text — instantly, privately, right in your browser.

No accounts. No cloud uploads. No subscriptions. Every scan runs entirely on your device using Tesseract.js, the same battle-tested OCR engine trusted by developers worldwide.

✦ HOW IT WORKS

Three ways to grab text from any image:

① Right-click any image → "Extract Text with SnapText"
See a photo, screenshot, infographic, or meme with text? Right-click and choose SnapText from the context menu. Done.

② Select Area
Click the SnapText icon in your toolbar, then hit "Select Area." Draw a box over any part of your screen — a chart, a PDF embedded in a webpage, a video frame, anything. SnapText captures that region and extracts the text.

③ Paste from Clipboard
Copied a screenshot? Hit "Paste Image" (or Ctrl+V in the popup) and SnapText reads whatever's on your clipboard.

✦ FEATURES

◉ Right-Click OCR — Works on any image on any webpage. Just right-click → extract.

◉ Area Selection Tool — Draw a box over any part of the visible page. Perfect for embedded PDFs, charts, code snippets in screenshots, or images that can't be right-clicked.

◉ Clipboard OCR — Paste screenshots or images directly into the popup for instant extraction.

◉ One-Click Copy — Extracted text goes to your clipboard with one click.

◉ Scan History — Your last 20 extractions are saved locally so you can revisit or re-copy without re-scanning.

◉ Dark Mode — Toggle between light and dark themes. SnapText remembers your preference.

◉ Zero Network Requests — SnapText never phones home. All processing happens in your browser via Tesseract.js WebAssembly — no data leaves your device.

◉ No Account Required — Install and go. No sign-up, no login, no email.

✦ PERFECT FOR

• Researchers copying quotes from paper scans or image-based PDFs
• Developers grabbing error messages from screenshots
• Students transcribing lecture slides or photos
• Professionals extracting data from charts, infographics, or reports
• Anyone who's ever retyped text they could clearly see on screen

✦ PRIVACY FIRST — ALWAYS

Your images and text never leave your browser. Period.

• No analytics
• No tracking pixels
• No external API calls
• No cloud storage
• History stays in Chrome's local storage on your machine only

✦ PRO VERSION — COMING SOON

The free version covers everything most users need. A Pro upgrade is in development:

• Multi-language OCR (Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and more)
• Bulk image processing
• PDF page scanning
• Extended history with search
• Export to TXT / Markdown / CSV
• Keyboard shortcuts

The free tier will always remain free.

✦ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED

SnapText requests only what it needs:

• activeTab — to capture the visible area when you use Select Area
• contextMenus — to add "Extract Text with SnapText" to the right-click menu
• storage — to save your history and theme preference locally
• clipboardRead — to read images you paste into the popup

No broad host permissions, no browsing history, nothing beyond this minimal set.

Extract text. Stay private. SnapText.

Tags

Productivity/tools productivity/tools

Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

🔐 Security Analysis

This extension hasn't been security-scanned yet.

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