Copyfish extends its free OCR to the desktop

Copyfish is a free Chrome extension which can extract text from just about anything in a browser tab -- images, videos, documents, more -- and optionally translate it, too.

That’s great, but it’s just got even better, with new support for desktop OCR.

Left-clicking the Copyfish button enables capturing the current browser tab as before, but right-clicking now allows desktop captures from any of your application windows.

This makes for a slightly awkward workflow, as you have to right-click the button, select and share a window to open it in a new tab, then left-click and choose the text you need.

That’s not the fault of Copyfish, though -- extensions can’t access desktop windows without permission, for security reasons -- and overall this is an excellent addition which makes the package even more useful.