Copyfish is a browser extension

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that allows users to copy and paste or copy and translate text from within images. "Images" come in all kinds of forms: photographs, charts, diagrams, screenshots,

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documents, comics, error messages, memes, Flash, and subtitles in YouTube movies. After a user marks the text in an image, Copyfish sends the image to a server

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that extracts it from a website, video or PDF document. Copyfish was first published in October 2015. Copyfish is not only used in Western countries but despite being available only with an English user interface, is used by many Chinese and Hindi-speaking Chrome users."फोटो पर लिखे टेक्स्ट को टाइप नहीं, कॉपी करें" ("Do not type the text written on the photo, copy it")
''Hindustan Times'', Rohit Kumar 13 September 2016 The software is published under the

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open-source license and hosted on GitHub.

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