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by mnem 3287 days ago
No, however the description of the plugin should make it clear data will be uploaded to a third party server for recognition so the user can make a choice about that.
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It more or less does.

`For developers: Copyfish is published under the GPL open-source license. As OCR software, it uses the free OCR API from https://ocr.space/ .`

I don't find that clear at all. And this is also important to non-developers.

Also, for nearly all documents I ever need to scan, if they're important enough to require scanning, they're important enough that a third party should have nothing to do with them.

The majority of exceptions to the above being, ironically, documents without text, sketches, doodles, etc.