[benburleson]

Most people (including myself, an average HN reader) don't actually know how to do this locally.

[mynewtb]

You can search for 'OCR your-os' and will get a multitude of tools that work locally.

[khedoros1]

As an average HN reader, that's probably not a big problem. Surely, you're accustomed to researching and learning to use new pieces of software that do the things you'd like?

[aquadrop]

If you're on windows I found that MS OneNote has great built in OCR.