Copyfish is a browser extension software for Google Chrome and Firefox that allows users to copy and paste or copy and translate text from within images. "Images" come in all kinds of forms: photographs, charts, diagrams, screenshots, PDF documents, comics, error messages, memes, Flash, and subtitles in YouTube movies.[1][2]

After a user marks the text in an image, Copyfish extracts it from a website, video or PDF document.[3][4]

Copyfish was first published in October 2015.[5][6] Copyfish is not only used in Western countries but despite being available only with an English user interface, is used by many Chinese and Hindi-speaking Chrome users.[7][8] The software is published under the GPL open-source license and hosted on GitHub.[9]

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  1. ^ "Now you can easily extract texts from images using this tool". GizBot, Samden Sherpa. 5 February 2017.
  2. ^ " How to Extract Text From Images (OCR)". Make Use Of, Joel Lee 1 February 2017
  3. ^ Mike Williams. "Copyfish: free OCR and translation for Chrome". Beta News, 19 October 2015.
  4. ^ "Copyfish 2.6.6 for Chrome". PC Adviser, By Mike Williams | 22 Jan 2017[dead link]
  5. ^ Martin Brinkmann. "Copyfish for Chrome: copy and translate text from media". gHacks Tech News, 10 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Text aus Bildern herauskopieren und übersetzen mit Copyfish für Opera, Chrome, Vivaldi". 10 October 2015.
  7. ^ "Copyfish 驚奇 Chrome 套件複製圖片影片內中文字!- 電腦玩物". ("Copyfish Surprise Chrome Suite Copy Image in Chinese") Playpcesor.com. by esor huang October 12, 2015
  8. ^ "फोटो पर लिखे टेक्स्ट को टाइप नहीं, कॉपी करें" ("Do not type the text written on the photo, copy it"). Hindustan Times, Rohit Kumar 13 September 2016
  9. ^ A9T9/Copyfish, 2024-02-05, retrieved 2024-02-07