My friends frequently post in foreign languages, and the meaning of the text often escapes me. It’s frustrating, because trying to copy the text can be time consuming or, in another alphabet. It’s especially frustrating when the text is part of an image.

For that reason, when I saw this in one of my favorite places (gHacks), I jumped on it…it’s small and free, so why not?

First off, it’ll appear like a fish on the right of the search box, and will be black if it works on the page or red if not. There are intermediate states though, as well: Translating some, but not all words, and not giving sense to idiomatic phrases…which you’ll have to guess. Also, it doesn’t detect all the fonts in an image equally. For example, it kind of works like the quick selection tool in Ps…contrast based. It can miss whole words for that reason, and can miss as text fonts which are impressionistic (dots) or ‘painterly’.

You don’t have to use the translation option in the extension, though. You can copy and paste it into Bing or Google Translate. They have their limitations as well, especially in highly idiomatic languages like French or Russian, and with slang or professional jargon.

For me, it’s a useful extension…you can always give it a try and remove it easily if it doesn’t serve your purpose.

It’s here if you want it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copyfish-fresh-online-ocr/eenjdnjldapjajjofmldgmkjaienebbj

Source:

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/10/10/copyfish-for-chrome-copy-and-translate-text-from-media/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e1756%2ehj0ao01hy5%2e1tr3