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Life & fun · June 20, 2017

Copyfish – Extract text from images, videos or PDF

Download Copyfish for Firefox. Do you need to extract text from images, videos or PDF? If yes, then the Copyfish free OCR software is for you. Until now, your only option was to retype the text. Copyfish is so much faster and more fun. It can do desktop screenshots and OCR, too.

Copyfish – Extract text from images, videos or PDF launched on June 20, 2017 with 292 votes, #75 of 3,107 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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Copyfish is a Firefox browser extension that extracts text from images, videos, and PDF files using optical character recognition (OCR). It allows users to capture desktop screenshots and automatically convert the text within them into editable format, eliminating the need for manual retyping. The tool is free to use and designed for anyone who regularly needs to digitize text from visual sources.

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Do you need to extract text from images, videos or PDF? If yes, then the Copyfish free OCR software is for you. Until now, your only option was to retype the text. Copyfish is so much faster and more fun. It can do desktop screenshots and OCR,from addons.mozilla.org

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