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Screenshot reader™

Screenshot reading support for Read&Write for Google Chrome™

Users1MCurrent public install base

Rating2.5Store average score

Reviews89Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

7-day growth0Net users gained this week

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Version2.0.14

ManifestV3

Size15.67MiB

Languages8English (United Kingdom) / English (United States) / Indonesia +5

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This extension provides OCR for users of Read & Write for Google Chrome.

You should not install this extension unless you want to enable the new screenshot reading functionality released in December 2016

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Store average score2.5Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average2.2Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text45Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews89Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 2.5. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Alexander Spencer2025年9月10日

I agree with hank

Rum2025年8月21日

This extension is an absolute joke. Screenshot Reader is hands-down the worst tool I’ve ever installed. It doesn’t read text correctly, constantly freezes, and when it does “work,” it butchers the text so badly it’s unusable. On top of that, it slows everything down and demands ridiculous permissions for no reason. I feel scammed just for wasting my time with it. Whoever made this clearly didn’t bother testing it before throwing it online. Stay FAR away from this garbage.

Tien Nguyen2025年4月5日

They install on my Chrome automatiacally. A suspicious extension.

Cavan Simpson2025年2月27日

slow, annoying voice, dosen't even read well, only worked on one page of the book I was reading. So it's a scam don't get it

Callie Alreza2025年1月16日

It doesn't work, A TOTAL SCAM

Lofi Girl2024年12月21日

不能使用

Christopher Reilly2024年12月4日

this app is straight DUKEY!!!

Jameson Johnston2024年11月25日

atrociously horrible.

Makenzie Clemons2024年11月25日

this app is sorry

Ian Gunning2024年11月25日

This is sooooooooooo bad it skips words and takes a while to load!!!!!!!!!!

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User clicks the extension icon → extension captures the visible tab screenshot → screenshot is processed through Tesseract.js OCR engine in an off-screen document → extracted text is returned and can be read aloud via the text-to-speech feature. The extension also responds to external commands from the parent Read&Write extension.

Target users: Users of Read&Write for Google Chrome with accessibility needs / Students and educators using assistive technology / People with dyslexia or reading difficulties / Users who need to extract text from screenshots or images

The extension is a companion to Read&Write for Google Chrome; the parent product's paid/login status is not fully assessed here
premiumOnly voice metadata exists but its enforcement mechanism in the parent product is unknown
Large minified/bundled files make complete code flow analysis challenging

Monetization

No paid features detected

The extension itself does not implement any billing, subscription, or payment gating. The 'premiumOnly: true' flags found in speech-iframe.js (lines 3002-3589) are metadata properties on ElevenLabs voice definitions. These flags mark certain text-to-speech voices as premium but are only descriptive metadata - the extension code does not check these flags to gate features or show upgrade prompts. No payment platform integrations (Stripe, etc.), no subscription logic, and no upgrade UI exist in the extension source code. The parent Read&Write product may have premium tiers, but this extension does not.

Confidence: 80
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: No login UI or authentication flow exists in the extension. The extension works as a standalone OCR screenshot reader. The speech features reference a userName parameter in SpeechServerEngine settings (speech-iframe.js:1116, 1130), but this defaults to empty string and is used for speech server caching identification, not user authentication. The extension is a companion to Read&Write for Google Chrome, which may have its own auth, but this screenshot reader extension itself does not gate any functionality behind a login.

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扩展能力较强：activeTab
主机权限覆盖范围较宽

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Texthelp

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Phone: +447860015735
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