👋 What's new with Copyfish V6.2.0, February 1, 2025

This release adds six new OCR languages to OCR Engine 2, vertical text OCR and OCR language autodetection.
When you use OCR Engine 2, these new features are automatically enabled without any additional steps:

Six new OCR languages
Select OCR Engine 2 to use the new features.

Vertical Japanese and Chinese OCR
Many users asked for vertical text OCR for Japanese and Chinese, for example to read and translate manga. Now we aded this feature.

👉 NEW: Copyfish users, do you need AI/image/OCR-based browser automation?
Then test our Ui.Vision Extension for Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
Just like Copyfish, Ui.Vision is free and open-source:

What's new with Copyfish V6.1.5, August 1, 2024

This release updates the OCR Engines and removes outdated settings from the options page.


Ui.Vision - #1 image and OCR-driven browser and desktop automation for Windows, Mac and Linux.

What's new with Copyfish V6.0.9, released August 8, 2023

This update brings global keyboard shortcuts. The update also fixes an issue with OCR'ing local images/files in the browser.

What's new with Copyfish V6.0.8, released June 1, 2022

NEW #1: This version contains a lot of internal changes to support the newest Chrome extension standards ("Manifest V3").
If you encounter any issues, please report them in our Copyfish user forum or contact us.

NEW #2: Local OCR (Beta) - to use it, you need to update the installed XModules.


Local OCR is available for Windows and Mac (Linux in the future). It is part of the free UI.Vision XModules add-on app.

Get image from clipboard - another way to extract text from images with OCR
The new "Get image from clipboard" feature allows you to extract text from an image in the clipboard.

Desktop OCR
The desktop OCR feature needs the XModule native app. This app helps Copyfish taking desktop screenshots. It is not required for using Copyfish inside the browser. It is only required to grab text from items on your desktop, like opened invoices, PDF documents, file menus, or presentations.


Do you want to grab text not only from inside the web browser, but from everything on your desktop?
Then try the new desktop OCR feature! It is now faster and much more convenient:

For developers

Did you know? Copyfish is Open-Source!

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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Try UI.Vision RPA, our OCR-powered Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software. It is available as free browser extension as RPA Chrome and RPA Firefox (OSI-certified Open-Source) plus computer-vision extension modules. UI.Vision RPA is fun to use - and its OCR screen scraping features are powered by the OCR.space OCR API.

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