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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.

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.

How does it compare to the other plugins doing the same thing here?

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The text on the linked page actually compares this to Project Naptha:

> For extension gurus: You might have heard of Project Naptha, a great addon that applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. Copyfish solves the same problem, but it takes a different user interface approach. It does not try to alter the website. Instead, it lets you mark the text in the image that you want to extract. As a result Copyfish works with every website, even videos and PDF documents.

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