Is OCR - Image Reader safe?

Clean risk

This extension captures a selected screen region and runs OCR to extract text from it.

Use the toolbar button to select an area in the active window, then the extension recognizes text in that image with its OCR engines. It supports Tesseract-based plain-text extraction, can fetch language training data on first use, and runs the OCR process offline according to the store description.

brian.girkov0.5.0Chrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

brian.girko - 3 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
brian.girko

Same store account

3 other listings published from this account, 390k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

Publishers can request a review.

What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.5.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Read and change your data on tessdata.projectnaptha.com

    https://tessdata.projectnaptha.com/*.gz

  • Read and change your data on github.com

    https://github.com/naptha/tessdata/blob/gh-pages/*.gz?raw=true

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

  • Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser

    unlimitedStorage

  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension

    activeTab

  • Show you desktop notifications

    notifications

  • Run its own code inside the pages you visit

    scripting

Updated 30 September 2026bhbhjjkcoghibhibegcmbomkbakkpdbo