Summarize Text from Image Privacy Policy

Summarize Text from Image pulls the text out of pictures, screenshots, and scanned PDF pages. Almost everything happens inside your own browser. This page explains, in plain words, the few moments when anything is sent to us.

What never leaves your device

Your pictures, screenshots, and PDF files are read on your own computer and are never uploaded, not for text recognition and not for anything else. If a PDF asks for a password, that password is used once, on your device, and is never sent or saved. Clean also works on your device, and the address of the page a picture came from is never saved.

The features that go online

Summary and Translate send only the text already recognized on your screen. Opening them sends nothing: a request goes out only after you press Generate summary or pick a language, over an encrypted connection, carrying that text alone. Your picture, your PDF file, and your PDF password are never part of it.

Our service reads that text, writes the summary or the translation, sends it back, and keeps no copy. Our records of these requests hold only ordinary service details, never your text.

Some networks cannot reach our service at all. Your request may then take a second route through another server we run, which passes it along unchanged and hands the answer back. That server stores nothing at all.

Share file is separate and runs only when you choose it. The extension first creates the .txt, .md, or .docx file you selected, encrypts that whole file on your device, then stores only the unreadable encrypted bytes long enough for the link to work. The decryption key stays after the # in the link and is not sent to our service. The link stops working after 15 minutes, and the encrypted file is removed automatically. Anyone who receives the complete link can download the file during that time, so share it only with the person you intend.

There is a daily cap on how many summaries and translations we handle in total, to keep costs predictable. If it is reached, both features pause until the next day. Recognition and Clean keep working, because they never needed the internet.

The number sent with those requests

Your copy of the extension invents a random number for itself and keeps it on your device. It travels with service and product-analytics requests so fair-use limits count per copy of the extension instead of per network, and so we can count active installations and understand which features work or fail.

It is not an account or an email address, and it is never tied to you or to what you sent. Remove the extension or clear its data and it is gone; a fresh install makes a new one.

Anonymous product analytics

The extension sends small first-party events when it is installed or updated, opened, completes or fails a feature, creates an export, or when you use Share file, Copy link, or QR. These events can include the extension version, broad feature name, success or error category, export format, interface entry point, language code, operation time and approximate byte or item count. They never include your image, PDF, recognized text, summary, translation, filename, page address, Share link, Share token, or anything from your clipboard.

Each event carries the random installation number described above, a short-lived random session number, a random event number that prevents retry duplicates, and, when present, a random acquisition number used to connect the install redirect with the Welcome page. Our Worker checks these values and stores only one-way hashes of the installation, session, acquisition and temporary Share identifiers. The random event number is stored only for deduplication. Cloudflare derives the request country at the edge; we do not store the raw IP address or full browser User-Agent in product analytics.

We use these events to measure active installations, feature adoption, reliability, retention, versions, broad geography, and the Share/Copy/QR funnel. They are not used for advertising, cross-site tracking, credit decisions, or personal profiling. Cloudflare Analytics Engine keeps event data for up to three months; aggregate reports without identifiers may be kept longer.

What stays on your device

If you leave History on, the extension keeps recent results, the text, a small picture, and the file name, in your browser only. It holds the 50 newest unpinned results and up to 25 MB; older ones drop off on their own, and anything you pin stays. You can delete one result, clear everything, or switch History off in Settings.

Your settings stay on your device too. There are no accounts, advertising identifiers, third-party advertising trackers, or session-replay tools inside the extension.

What we never do

We do not sell your data, we do not share it for advertising, and we show you no ads. The hosting company whose computers run our service sees Summary and Translate text only while a request is being answered and never trains anything on it. For Share file it stores only the encrypted file bytes, without the decryption key, for up to 15 minutes. It also processes the anonymous product events described above. Those computers sit in several countries, so this processing may happen outside your own country.

Your rights

We use your text only to do the job you asked for, and you can stop that at any time by not using Summary, Translate, or Share file. Wherever European, UK, or California privacy law applies, you may ask what we hold about you, ask for a copy, ask us to correct or delete it, ask us to limit a use, and complain to your privacy authority. We will never treat you differently for asking. Write to support@summarizeimage.com. Because there are no accounts, shared files are encrypted, and they expire after 15 minutes, there is usually nothing on our side that can be tied back to you.

Limited Use

The use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Children

This is a general tool for work and study. It is not made for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted on this page and the date below changes with it.

Contact

Questions, or want to use one of the rights above? Email support@summarizeimage.com.

Last updated: August 5, 2026