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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 .




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