Reviews for Copyfish
Copyfish by Ui.Vision Open-Source RPA Software
9 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18465282, 4 months agoTried it on two images, failed on both (it didn't even attempt to extract any text). Uninstalled.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Ant Dude, 4 years agoNice idea, but its OCR doesn't work well with tiny images with tiny texts. It didn't see or misread a lot of texts. :(
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for the feedback. Can you please re-post it in our user forum at https://forum.ui.vision/ ? There we can ask some follow-up question to better understand the issue. A sample screenshot that shows the issue would be helpful, too. - Rated 2 out of 5by Neko, 4 years agoIf Google Translate is expensive, then why not use a different service? There's DeepL, Yandex Translate and probably many more. Google isn't even the best machine traslator. It would certainly increase the useability. The pictures I try to extract text from often have just half of a sentence, so I have to open 2 google tabs to read one sentence and it loads quite long every time a new tab is opened.
The "Copy to Clipboard" button doesn't work for me.
Every new recapture deltes the text in the textbox instead of just adding to it, so I could scann the whole sentence before going to google, instead of opening google twice.
It would be great if the capture window would be re-sizeable as it takes up my whole screen when open.
The Copyfish window also becomes invisible if I change the background color of a website with a userstyle (Stylus) to black (bc in-built darm modes are still not a thing for some reason).Developer response
posted 4 years agoAll the translation services you mention are at least as expensive as Google translate :-(
Thanks for all your suggestions => Can you please re-post them in our user forum at https://forum.ui.vision/ ? There we can ask some follow-up question to better understand the issues. - Rated 2 out of 5by Dexms4, 5 years agoHas been broken for close to a month. Besides that, there were some major flaws in the design - the addon would not display untranslated text properly, instead displaying a loading symbol for a google translate page that would never load (because apparently you need to be a paying user to get simple google translate functionality).
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThe Google Translage API is not free, that is why we can only offer it on the paid PRO+ version. But the free version contains a "Translate" button that opens the OCR'ed text directly in the free Google Translate website - a very convenient feature. Did you discover it yet? - Rated 2 out of 5by Lizardin'Trenchcoat, 6 years agoAll in all this add on has been a good choice to have, but the newest update has several downsides.
~ T̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶l̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶s̶p̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶p̶p̶a̶r̶e̶n̶t̶l̶y̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶n̶g̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶a̶ ̶P̶r̶o̶-̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶f̶e̶a̶t̶u̶r̶e̶,̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶p̶l̶a̶c̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶g̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶l̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶w̶e̶b̶s̶i̶t̶e̶.̶
~ I have also found repeated instances of my quick select languages not working or even being reset to the default of none. (I think what happens is whenever I try to change a copyfish setting, it resets all previously altered settings back to the default).
~ When the quick select buttons ARE there, it doesn't allow me to switch between them while it is translating, and so with the removal of the translation feature, it just keeps trying to translate forever. (It seems that I can switch languages while it's still doing the OCR, but when it starts "translating", the buttons all go grey).
These are obvious and newly introduced problems that I feel negatively impact my experience with this add on.
Edit: Unfortunately, uninstalling and re-installing copyfish did not fix any of the issues I have been experiencing, though I understand and sympathize with your provided rational about why you removed the translate feature.Developer response
posted 6 years ago"Always translate issue" => Please reinstall Copyfish. That should fix this issue. If not, please contact us at team @ ocr.space.
The translation feature had to be moved to the PRO+ plan, because the translation API provider raised the prices dramatically - so we can no longer afford to offer it for free. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13188171, 6 years agoIf the text is on a colored background, the extension has a hard time reading it. Also it's very inaccurate when trying to guess the characters for a language that doesn't use Roman letters.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Joshguy85, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12766830, 8 years agoI too have the issue with the addon not working. It says: "Unable to capture screen. Please try again when the page has loaded". Nightly 57