Is Photo to Text safe?
Photo to Text sends selected images and screenshots to ethereal-expanse.com with a persistent per-install user ID.
When you use OCR, Photo to Text uploads the chosen image or captured tab screenshot to ethereal-expanse.com for text extraction. The request includes a persistent X-User-ID stored in localStorage, along with language, version, and request signature headers.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.5.0. 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 every site you visit
<all_urls>
Show a panel beside the page
sidePanel
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Photo to Text contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- ethereal-expanse.com
Photo to Text sends data to ethereal-expanse.com. 3 other extensions we have analysed send data here.