Firefox Firefox browser will have built-in OCR image text recognition function

CTOnews.com August 21, according to foreign media ghacks.net reported that the Mac version of Firefox Nightly Firefox has a new feature, when using the right mouse button to click on a web picture, a pop-up menu appears a "copy text from image" option.

This feature is only enabled by default in the Firefox Nightly version of Mac, and has not been launched on a large scale. When the user clicks on this option, the Firefox browser pops up to say "searching for text in the image" and then automatically copies the recognized text to the user's clipboard.

According to the report, this function uses macOS's native OCR function, especially API VNRecognizeTextRequestRevision2. Therefore, this feature is only available for macOS 10.15 or later Mac computers.

CTOnews.com learned that this feature has been mentioned on Mozilla's error tracking site, indicating that users can choose to copy part of the text or use the screen reading function to read the identified text.

In addition, this feature will also be implemented in the Windows version of Firefox, and it has not been mentioned whether it supports Linux.