Skip to content

🧠 A Chrome extension that instantly translate text from images right inside your browser! Perfect for manga, webtoons, and any image-based content.

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

Kuju29/TextPhantomOCR_Overlay

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

Note: The Text mode is currently broken because SeleniumBase doesn’t support Headless=True (running the browser in the background). I’m looking for a new solution and will add it along with AI translation.

✨ TextPhantomOCR Overlay

Installation Run API Online

📥 Download & Install Options

Version Extension Download API Download Note
v2.0.2 Install Extension Download API Manual install only
v1.0.1 Install Extension Download API Manual install
Chrome Web Store Install Extension Run API from Hugging Face Easiest option, but still requires API

🧩 1. Extension Installation

Option – Chrome Web Store (API v2.0.1 required)

  1. Install from Chrome Web Store.

Option – Manual Install

  1. Download and extract the Source Code for your version.
  2. Open Chrome → Go to chrome://extensions/.
  3. Enable Developer Mode (top right).
  4. Click Load unpacked.
  5. Select the extracted folder.

🚀 2. Start the API

  1. Download the .exe matching your extension version from the table above.
  2. Run the API program.
  3. Click Start API.

🖱️ 3. Getting Started with the Extension

  • For v1.0.1 (Chrome Web Store or manual install)

    • Navigate to the page you want to translate.
    • Open the extension UI and click Start.
  • For v2.0.2 (Manual install)

    • Navigate to the page you want to translate.
    • Right-click anywhere → choose 🔍 Translate... from the context menu.

🌐 Using the API on Hugging Face (Run API for v2.0.2)

If you don’t want to use the .exe for API online, you can try the temporary API with these steps:

  1. Go to: https://huggingface.co/spaces/plan291037/api-ocr-test/tree/main
  2. Click the three dots in the top-right and select Duplicate this Space.
  3. The build will start automatically — wait until you see Running.
  4. Click the three dots again and choose Embed this Space.
  5. Copy the link and use it in your API extension.

Notes:

  • If unused, the Space will shut down automatically within 48 hours.
  • To stop it manually, go to Settings and click the small Pause Space link.
  • This API works only in images mode.

🖼️ DEMO / UI PREVIEW

UI Preview

UI Preview

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

About

🧠 A Chrome extension that instantly translate text from images right inside your browser! Perfect for manga, webtoons, and any image-based content.

Topics

Resources

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Packages

No packages published