Is the OCR-extraction performed in the client? if its transferred to a server then people should be aware of this so sensitive data from documents/pdf is not submitted.
What is the business model of free extensions like these? Is it all spyware/malware?<p>It looks like many free extensions either have malware in them from the start or get sold to malware companies later on, who then deploy the malware via updates:<p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/many-browser-extensions-have-become-adware-or-malware-1505117457" rel="nofollow">http://lifehacker.com/many-browser-extensions-have-become-ad...</a>
Similar Chrome extension I wrote using Google Cloud APIs: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-vision/nblmokgbialjjgfhfofbgfcghhbkejac?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-vision/nblmo...</a>
We need to evolve a grammar for describing privacy implications, because proper classification of this software would allow it to be marked as malware/spyware.<p>It is beyond irresponsible for mozilla to do nothing to prevent this malware from being recommended on their platform.
Hmm, I've seen a few apps and extensions like this before. I think Project Naptha was a heavily advertised one that did the same thing a few years back.<p>But how's the accuracy here? Cause when I used previous plugins for this functionality, I often found they'd return gibberish if the text was even slightly ambiguous looking in image form.<p>How does it compare to the other plugins doing the same thing here?
This seems cool, I just tried it in chrome and it has support for pop-up dictionaries, so I'll be using this for some beginner reading assistance.<p>Thanks for making this!
On my phone so I don't have a chance to give it a shot, but what I find has been most irritating in the past about ocr is the accuracy. If your extension has better accuracy you might call that out.