OCR Buddy

Local browser OCR tool for extracting text, code, formulas, and tables.

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Why it made the shelf

OCR Buddy is a developer and productivity tool that runs locally in the browser to extract text and data.

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Hacker News

First seen: 3 months ago
Best score: 9 points

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GitHub stars: 51
Last code update: 2026-06-20

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Where it showed up

1 reference from 1 publisher.

First trace: Hacker News3 months ago

01Hacker News
3 months ago
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local browser OCR for code, formulas (LaTeX) and tables
9 pointsOpen thread on hackernews

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

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

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