OCR It Extracts Uncopyable Text
github.comTuesday, August 25, 2026
- •OCR It extracts text from un-copyable paginated documents for LLM use
- •Chrome extension pins one screen region and advances pages by hotkey
- •Bundled Tesseract runs OCR 100% offline; Hacker News showed 116 points, 27 comments
OCR It, a Chrome extension from thiagotigaz on GitHub, lets users pin one screen region and use a hotkey to move through a paginated document while extracting text for an LLM. The extension targets documents where text cannot be copied directly.
The GitHub description says OCR runs 100% offline through bundled Tesseract (open-source text recognition engine). The Hacker News thread had a score of 116 and 27 comments.