OCR Buddy: local browser OCR for code, formulas (LaTeX) and tables
Details
- External ID
- 48824434
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- OCR Buddy: local browser OCR for code, formulas (LaTeX) and tables
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.505973715651135
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local browser ocr for code and formulas
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Running local browser OCR for math and code is accomplished by bundling open-weight OCR/vision models (such as Nougat, Florence, or PaddleOCR via ONNX Runtime Web or WebGPU Transformers.js) in a simple web app.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Launched 249 days after the earliest competitor.
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- doc-router · github · 2026-09-18 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- TexLite · hn · 2026-08-26 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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