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Building a Privacy-First OCR Tool in the Browser — What Would You Do Differently?
... Product Hunt community, I recently built a browser-based tool that extracts text from screenshots using
Tesseract.js
, with all processing happening 100% client-side. No files get uploaded to a server, which makes it useful for sensitive content like code snippets, error logs, or internal screenshots. I wanted to share the technical approach and a few lessons learned, and I'd love your feedback on how you'd improve it. Why client-side OCR? The main challenge was balancing speed ... ... accuracy, and privacy. Most OCR tools send images to a backend, which creates friction for users dealing with private data. Running
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