Getting started with Copyfish

Thank you for installing the free and open-source Copyfish browser addon - available for Chrome, Firefox and Edge. .
This page appears only once after the installation to give you some hints on how to best use Copyfish.

For desktop OCR please also install the Ui.Vision XModule. It adds the desktop screen capture feature to Copyfish. If you only want to OCR content inside the web browser, this is not required. For more information we have the Copyfish help page or watch the short screencast below:

New with Version 6: Local OCR:


Local OCR is available for Windows and Mac (Linux in the future). To use it, you need to install the free UI.Vision XModules.

Tech support

Please vist the Copyfish OCR forum for tech support questions. We love to hear from you. And even though this is a free browser extension, we read all forum posts and typically respond on the same day.

If you like the extension, please rate it in the Chrome, Edge or Firefox galleries :-) And if you don’t like it, please post us your feedback in the forum, so we can improve Copyfish further. We can only fix bugs and issues reported to us.

For developers

Copyfish 🐟 is published under the GPL open-source license, you can find its source code on GitHub. As OCR software, it uses our free OCR.space OCR API and Online OCR service.

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Need to automate browser tasks like web testing or form filling? Check out our sister product Ui.Vision - a free and open-source RPA browser extension with over 100,000 users that leverages our computer vision and OCR.Space technology to power automation workflows.

Do you have an OCR API question? Please email us or visit the OCR API Forum - we love to answer OCR questions.