What's new with Copyfish V6.0.9, released August 8, 2022

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.

Did you know? Copyfish is Open-Source!

What's new with Copyfish V5.1.8, released April 14, 2021

  • - Added: "Get image from clipboard" - another way to extract text from images.
  • - Improved: Error messages
  • - Fixed: Firefox Copy to clipboard bug
  • - Fixed (V5.1.9): Click on website no longer worked when Copyfish was open

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 updated XModule V2021-3 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.

What's new with Copyfish V5.1.1, released March 11, 2021

  • - Added: Switch to use Desktop OCR always, for grabbing text from the desktop and web browser
  • - Added: Receipt OCR support (on by default)
  • - Changed: New Copyfish icon
  • - Fixed: Several bugs


NEW: 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:

What's new with Copyfish V5.0.5, released January 28, 2021


This page appears only once after the update to tell you what is new:

What's new in Version V4.2.1

If you use Copyfish to extract text from images you have probably been waiting for this update! Copyfish now supports right-click functionality. This means that instead of using the Copyfish button in your browser toolbar to select a web image to be searched, you can simply right-click on any web image and select “Get Text from Image” from browser’s new right-click context menu.

If you use Copyfish often and professionally, have a look at our PRO and PRO+ (with translation) plans. They make using Copyfish even faster and better. You will save plenty of time with PRO!

What's new in Version V4.1.1

This update adds a second OCR Engine. This engine supports less languages, but is better optimized for recognizing numbers and special characters such as "*#+~!?:;,.~" - so for example if you use Copyfish to get an invoice number from a scanned invoice, use OCR Engine 2. You can switch between both engines in on the Copyfish settings page.

What's new in Version V4.0.2

This update adds desktop OCR and the Google translation button.

(1) OCR anything on your desktop: Copyfish can now do desktop screenshots and desktop OCR (screen scraping).

For desktop OCR you need to install the UI Vision XModule in addition to Copyfish. It adds the desktop screen capture feature to Copyfish. If you only want to OCR content inside the web browser, this is not required.

(2) Translate anything: Click the translation button to send your text to the Google translate website, where you can translate it for free.

Share Copyfish: Please help to keep Copyfish free by sharing it on Facebook, Twitter,... - and by rating on the Copyfish extension pages in the Chrome and Firefox addon galleries.

For more information we have the Copyfish help page or watch the short screencast below:

Tech support

Email copyfish@ui.vision or use the contact form. We love to hear from you. And even though this is a free browser extension, we read all emails and typically respond on the same day.

If you like the extension, please rate it in the Chrome, Edge and Firefox galleries :-) And if you don’t like it, please email us your feedback so we can improve it 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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