Privacy Policy — OCR It
Last updated 24 August 2026 · OCR It · source on GitHub
OCR It does not collect, transmit, or sell any data.
The extension makes no network requests. It contains no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, and no remote code. Text recognition runs entirely on your computer using a Tesseract build bundled inside the extension package.
What the extension handles
To do its job, OCR It processes three kinds of information, all only on your own machine:
| Data | Why | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| A screenshot of the visible tab | To crop the region you selected | Held in memory, cropped, then discarded |
| The recognised text and a thumbnail of each crop | So you can review, edit and export your transcript | Local browser storage on your computer |
| Your settings and the saved region | To remember your setup between sessions | Local browser storage on your computer |
Full-size crops are deleted as soon as a page has been read successfully. Only a small thumbnail and the text remain, so you can check that the region lined up.
No browsing history is kept. A captured page is stored with its text, its thumbnail, its size and the time it was taken — not the address or the title of the page it came from. Nothing the extension stores says which site you were on.
Your control over it
Everything the extension stores is local and yours. Clear in the popup deletes all captured pages, their text and their thumbnails. Removing the extension deletes everything it ever stored.
Nothing is backed up, synced, or shared. There is no account and no server.
Permissions
| Permission | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
activeTab | To screenshot the tab you are reading, only after you invoke the extension by hotkey or from its popup |
| Optional site access | Requested only when you press Allow in the popup, and only for the site you are on. Needed for an automatic run that continues across page loads, or a reader inside a cross-origin frame |
scripting | To draw the region picker and turn the page in the viewer you are reading |
storage, unlimitedStorage | To keep your transcript and settings on your computer; a long book can exceed the default quota |
offscreen | To run the OCR engine, which needs a canvas and a worker that a service worker cannot provide |
tabs | To identify the tab a capture belongs to, and to refuse capturing on browser-internal pages |
alarms | To restart an interrupted automatic run |
The extension requests no site access when you install it. It reads a page only when you press its hotkey or a button in its popup, and any durable site access is granted by you, per site, from that popup.
Contact
Questions or concerns: open an issue at github.com/thiagotigaz/ocr-it/issues.