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Work · September 18, 2021

OCR Scanner

Extract and translate text from image

OCR Scanner launched on September 18, 2021 with 91 votes, #529 of 2,941 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

A Chrome extension to extract and translate text from images. All you need to do is to capture the region you want to translate in your current tab, the extension will then extract the text inside it and translate the text to your preferred language.

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