Getting started with Copyfish

Thank you for installing the free and open-source Copyfish browser addon - available for Chrome, Firefox and Edge .
This page appears only once after the installation to give you some hints on how to best use Copyfish.

For desktop OCR please also install the UI Vision XModule. It adds the desktop screen capture feature to Copyfish. If you only want to OCR content inside the web browser, this is not required. For more information we have the Copyfish help page or watch the short screencast below:

New with Version 6: Local OCR:


Local OCR is available for Windows and Mac (Linux in the future). To use it, you need to install the free UI.Vision XModules.

Tech support

Email copyfish@ui.vision or use the contact form. We love to hear from you. And even though this is a free browser extension, we read all emails and typically respond on the same day.

If you like the extension, please rate it in the Chrome, Edge or Firefox galleries :-) And if you don’t like it, please email us your feedback so we can improve it further. We can only fix bugs and issues reported to us.

For developers

Copyfish 🐟 is published under the GPL open-source license, you can find its source code on GitHub. As OCR software, it uses our free OCR.space OCR API and Online OCR service.

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Try UI.Vision RPA, our OCR-powered Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software. It is available as free browser extension as RPA Chrome and RPA Firefox (OSI-certified Open-Source) plus computer-vision extension modules. UI.Vision RPA is fun to use - and its OCR screen scraping features are powered by the OCR.space OCR API.

Do you have an OCR API question? Please email us or visit the OCR API Forum - we love to answer OCR questions.