BrowserOCR
Private OCR that runs entirely in your browser
Details
- External ID
- 1239907
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- BrowserOCR
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Turn images and scanned PDFs into editable text on your device. BrowserOCR supports common image formats, HEIC/TIFF, page-range PDFs, two OCR models, batch exports, and offline reuse—without uploading files or results.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document and PDF utility tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser-based ocr tool for private text extraction
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It wraps open-source OCR models (such as PaddleOCR or Tesseract) running directly in the browser via ONNX Runtime Web or WebAssembly inside a Web Worker.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 431 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #164 of 432 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- Open Doc Tools · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- PDF Tools Base · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ZANCTA · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- PDF to MD · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- BrowserPine · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- PdfShilp · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Shivdoc · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Text Scanner: Image to Text · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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