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 two features that go online
Summary and Translate are the only features that send anything, and they 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.
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 Summary and Translate requests for one reason: so that fair-use limits count per copy of the extension instead of per network, and one busy office cannot use up everyone else's share.
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.
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, and there are no accounts, no advertising identifiers, and no tracking of any kind 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 only other party involved is the hosting company whose computers run our text service; it sees your text only while a request is being answered and never trains anything on it. Those computers sit in several countries, so your text may be handled outside your own for that moment.
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 or Translate. 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 and we keep no text, there is usually nothing on our side to find.
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: July 29, 2026