OCR Buddy: local browser OCR for code, formulas (LaTeX) and tables

What it does

Faithful, fully-local OCR for Chrome. Grab text from anything on screen — a region, the viewport, or a whole scrolling page — code in a paused video, a paragraph in a PDF, a formula, a table. Or turn an entire page into clean Markdown for an LLM. No server. No image ever leaves your machine. No hallucinated text. 🌐 ocr-buddy.com · 🧩 Chrome extension (Manifest V3) · 🔓 Free & open source (MIT) · 🛡️ 100% local, privacy-first Silent autoplay loops. ▶ Watch in High Quality Video: demo 1 · demo 2 . Modern OCR is dominated by large autoregressive vision-language models. They top the benchmarks — and they invent fluent, plausible, wrong text the moment the pixels get unclear. For most uses…from github.com

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