Skip to main content

Here's what a VPN can't protect you from (but you need to use it)

The abbreviation " VPN " has slowly become established among average Internet users, which is certainly good, but the problem is that people have started to see VPN as the ultimate solution to all problems.

How to copy text from an image (in 2 clicks, free)

How to copy text from an image (in 2 clicks, free)

Copying text online is certainly an action we do many times during the day, but the problem is that the text from the image cannot be copied - we have to retype it. However, today there are intelligent OCR tools for image text recognition.

Tesseract OCR is one such tool, ie. a package that contains everything you need to recognize text from an image. Best of all, it recognizes almost all languages ​​around the world - including Serbian!

Of course, Tesseract OCR is completely free and open-source, which means we have a bunch of applications that use it. This is how the Tesseract JS library was created, which means that we can use this powerful OCR tool in our favorite web browser!

What we are interested in are finished products that rely on Tesseract and in this case Tesseract JS.

Quixy Toolbox OCR

This is a new free add-on for web browsers that comes to us from Quixy, with which you can very easily "extract" and copy text from any image.

Because the plugin uses the aforementioned Tessaract JS library, we have several benefits:

  • Everything is free
  • We have one of the most powerful OCR tools available
  • Everything takes place in your web browser (nothing is sent outside the web browser)
  • Recognizes almost all languages ​​of the world (even Serbian)
  • Easy to use

How is Quixy Toolbox OCR used?

You first need to install the Chrome Web Store Plugin - INSTALL.

Open the image you want to copy the text from. The image must be visible on the screen, so it can be inserted on a web page.

Now click on the add-on icon that appears in the add-ons panel.

In the options panel, select a language (if the current one doesn't suit you).

In the options panel, select a language (if the current one doesn't suit you).

Click "Select an area" and highlight the text from the image you see on the screen.

Click "Select an area" and highlight the text from the image you see on the screen.

Wait a second or two and the text from the image will appear in a separate window.

Wait a second or two and the text from the image will appear in a separate window.

You can now select a new part, copy the entire text, copy part of the text, or close the text window.

Comments

Popular this month

Xiaomi introduces the Redmi Note 9T and Redmi 9T

Redmi Note 9T and Redmi 9T move the established segments of lower and middle-class smartphones with exceptional performance and multi-day battery life Global technology leader Xiaomi today unveiled two new Redmi smartphones: the Redmi Note 9T and the Redmi 9T . The first-ever 5G smartphone in the Redmi Note series.

X96 Mini Android TV Box Review

I have already written an article about buying an Android TV Box for up to 30 euros, and now I am writing about one such device - the X96 Mini TV Box . There is not much to say about this device, its price is around 25 euros, it is an Android TV Box like any other, which means that it is powered by an Android system. Since I wrote about it in the previous article, I will not repeat myself. These cheaper TV Box devices differ mainly only in the chip, amount of RAM, and ROM memory. In the previous article, I wrote about what to pay attention to when choosing, and I chose this device that way.

You can buy all these useful gadgets for less than $5

You can buy anything and everything online, but most don't even know what you can buy for $ 5 . There are a lot of interesting and useful gadgets for phones as well as for computers, laptops, tablets… I personally bought a lot of these little things, so I decided to recommend some in this article.

Stremio - watch all movies and series with subtitles for free!

Stremio is a service that allows you to watch any movie or series completely free with subtitles in HD and FHD resolution on any device, even TV. How is it possible? It is a free program for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS that serves as a player to play video content from your computer. That’s all this program does and it’s completely legal.

Total War Shogun 2: The Fall of the Samurai

Fall of the Samurai is the first solo expansion for Total War: Shogun 2  was set in Japan during the Boshin War in the 1960s. It is a civil war that began as an ideological struggle due to the pro-Western policy of the shogunate. Clans that were against this policy fought against the shogunate and to restore power to the emperor, while during the war both sides used weapons that were no longer classic for Japan in the last century, but also used rifles and armor. The result is a unique environment: samurai who use forged swords, but also rifles and everything that that time brought.