GoKawiilNew Chrome extension OCR It turns un-selectable PDFs into LLM-ready text
OCR It is a Chrome extension that lets users draw a fixed capture region over a paginated document viewer—like a scanned book or locked PDF—and repeatedly screenshot and OCR that same spot with a hotkey, building a full text transcript as pages turn. An auto-run mode can capture, advance the page, and repeat until the document ends, all processed locally using a bundled Tesseract engine with no network calls or API keys required.
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Many scanned books, slide decks, and viewer-locked PDFs block text selection, making it hard to feed their content into AI tools for summarization or search. By running OCR entirely offline and automating page-by-page capture, the extension offers a privacy-preserving, no-cost way to convert previously inaccessible documents into usable text for chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude.
- Users pin a capture region once, then a hotkey repeats screenshot-and-OCR on each page.
- An automatic run mode can capture and advance through an entire document unattended.
- All OCR processing happens locally via bundled Tesseract, with no data sent over the network.
Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1400 Document Scanner — If you're wrangling paper or bound documents into text for an LLM, a fast duplex sheet-fed scanner like the ScanSnap iX1400 gets pages digitized in bulk with one button. It's a natural companion to OCR workflows when the source isn't already stuck in a browser viewer.
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