Browser extension

Reading text in images and videos

The extension reads text that is part of a picture, such as manga, screenshots or subtitles burned into a video, and lays it over the picture as clickable words. It works without an account.

  • Browser extension

Starting it

  • Press Alt+Shift+O.
  • Right-click an image and choose Read text in this image with Lingaku.
  • On YouTube and Crunchyroll, click the text button on the player.

Area, image and video

A toolbar opens at the bottom of the screen with three modes:

  • Area: the page freezes and you drag a frame over the text.
  • Image: click an image to read it.
  • Video: the video pauses and its frame is read. Play it again to remove the text.
A comic page with the text Lingaku read laid over the speech bubbles
The text found is laid over the picture, vertical text included, and its words open the popup.

To find the text, the picture is sent to Lingaku’s servers. Videos with copy protection cannot be captured.

Shortcuts

These keys start text reading from any page, even when the page does not have focus:

Open or close the Lingaku sidebar
Alt+Shift+L
Read text on screen
Alt+Shift+O
Read the text in a selected area
No key
Read the text in an image on the page
No key
Read the text in the video frame
No key

These are the default keys. With the extension installed, this list shows the keys set in your browser. The browser keeps them, so change them in its shortcut settings (chrome://extensions/shortcuts in Chrome).

Inside the text reader:

Switch to selecting an area
A
Switch to picking an image
I
Switch to selecting in the video
V
Read the selected area
Enter
Play the video and remove the text overlays
Space
Close and remove the text overlays
Esc
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