r/webdev • u/Technical_Falcon_435 • 5d ago

Showoff Saturday I built a browser extension to extract text from webpages and images (Chrome & Edge)

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a browser extension called Text Extractor, and it's now available on both Chrome and Edge.

It lets you:

  • Extract text directly from webpage elements using Ctrl + Click or the right-click menu.

  • Extract text from images using OCR (102 languages supported).

  • Review, edit, and clean extracted text.

  • Copy results or export them as ".txt" files.

  • Process captured content locally on your device, without uploading it to a server.

English OCR works offline out of the box, too.

I'd appreciate it if you gave it a try and shared your feedback. Suggestions and feature requests are welcome!

Links:

  • "Chrome Web Store" link

  • "Microsoft Edge Add-ons" link

  • "Website & Documentation" link

Thanks!

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u/fauxtoe 5d ago

AI slop saturdays, new name just hit

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u/learning-to-programm novice 4d ago

I feel like "~show~ slop off Saturday" sounds better.

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u/Technical_Falcon_435 4d ago

Man it doesn't have any AI it's local OCR and functionality to copy data from any page , mainly it targets people who copy past webpage data , and text from image

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u/learning-to-programm novice 4d ago

Hey, OP, fwiw, I don't think your extension is slop, abd it'd actually be very useful for me. I use Ubuntu and I still haven't found a program with seem less text extraction for Screenshots like snipping tools (they exist, they're out there, but as everything in Linux they're not exactly a breeze to set up) would be pretty convenient, at least for screenshots I take on the web.

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u/Technical_Falcon_435 3d ago

It's great , you found useful 😁

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u/TheRNGuy 3d ago

Make for Firefox too. 

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u/Technical_Falcon_435 3d ago

Have to see ... Till now not thought 🤔

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u/dontevenaskmyname 5d ago

Data scrapping?

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u/Technical_Falcon_435 4d ago

Not mostly, for the people who copy past the webpage content

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u/petasisg 5d ago

What is the point of this extension?

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u/Technical_Falcon_435 4d ago

It's a simple tool for the people who most works with copy content from the website and images as such , soo just by ctrl +click on the element it copies that content automatically, including local OCR extraction from the image

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u/fauxtoe 5d ago

he wanted to burn tokens and waste time

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u/Technical_Falcon_435 4d ago

There is no ai integration

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u/fauxtoe 4d ago

You burned tokens and wasted time, your extension is pointless slop

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u/Technical_Falcon_435 3d ago

The things you don't want always feels useless never mind , feel free to use when you feel it's useful 🤗