[kebman]

It's a deal breaker because THAT'S NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS, and that also goes for Copyfish. It smells fishy to me, and _promises_ never kept prying eyes away secret documents. People who handle confidential documents should never use SaaS. It's an issue of trust, and Copyfish deserves none.

[ghostly_s]

Okay, don't use it then. They make no claims of enhanced privacy and frankly it's unreasonable to presume a service such as this would do all processing locally unless you're paying a premium for that ability. Or did I miss the "Great for confidential documents!" banner? For most peoples' use-cases, this is not a concern.

[mnem]

It's cheaper for a service to OCR locally than remotely.

[a9t9]

There is simply no good OCR engine available that can run inside a Chrome or Firefox extension. The best available is Tesseract.js. And while this engine is fantastic as a project, its recognition rate does not come close to what is available server side.

[ocrcustomserver]

I agree. There's also ocrad.js .

[awqrre]

Mozilla should have made an effort to have that OCR code be able to be ran locally... not everything needs the cloud (well, almost nothing)

[ocrcustomserver]

If you need a private OCR server that you can host yourself (locally or on the cloud), shoot me an email.

[kronos29296]

Did you create this account just to answer this question? I am curious.

[ocrcustomserver]

Yes. Does it sound like shameless promotion to you? Maybe it is, but some people might have a need for this (and it's relevant to the topic/comment).

[kronos29296]

Promotion - Yes. Shameless - No. (This is what I think) I am just curious. I sure love the idea of this extension. If I need to use something like this I atleast know a handy extension for this now.

[drez]

They sure did. I also have a sneaking suspicion that it's a9t9, the owner of copyfish and ocr.space.