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Chrome extension: pin a screen region once, then hotkey your way through a paginated document. OCR runs 100% offline via bundled Tesseract.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2026-08-24 · latest 2026-08-25

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  1. …post it here whenever we hear something. In the meanwhile it can be tested with the zip file here https://github.com/thiagotigaz/ocr-it/releases or by building manually.
  2. …approved you guys can download the ready to use releases: Download ocr-it-firefox-0.3.0.zip from https://github.com/thiagotigaz/ocr-it/releases/tag/v0.3.0 If you'd rather build from source, the steps are in the README:…
  3. …click via Extensions.triggerAction to prove the ungranted path still works. MIT, no build step: https://github.com/thiagotigaz/ocr-it
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    OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM
    story by thiagolima · 2026-08-24 · 35 comments