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Why is it a deal breaker?



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.


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.


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


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.


I agree. There's also ocrad.js .


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)


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


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


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).


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.


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




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