# OCR It

> Pin a capture region once, then hit a hotkey on every page to OCR that exact spot. Runs fully offline.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/ocr-it](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ocr-it)

## Overview

- **ID:** `ocr-it`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Thiago Lima
- **Category:** privacy-security,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 13
- **Weekly downloads:** 5
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.3.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-28
- **First published:** 2026-08-25
- **Size:** 7.62 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ocr-it/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/thiagotigaz/ocr-it/issues](https://github.com/thiagotigaz/ocr-it/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ocr-it/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ocr-it/privacy/)

## Description

OCR It reads text out of documents you can only page through: scanned books, slide decks, PDFs, and readers that won't let you select text.

Drag out a capture region once. After that, every press of the hotkey screenshots that exact rectangle, runs OCR on it, and appends the result to a running transcript. Or start an automatic run and let it capture, turn the page, and repeat until the document ends.

• Set the region once — adjust it with handles or nudge it pixel by pixel • One hotkey per page, or a fully automatic run that stops itself at the end • Every page keeps a thumbnail of exactly what was cropped, so a misaligned region is obvious immediately • Edit any page's text in place, re-run a bad read, export everything as one text file • Repeated pages are flagged, so you notice when the document didn't actually turn • English, Portuguese and Spanish

Everything runs on your computer. The extension makes no network requests: no API key, no account, no uploads, no analytics. Text recognition uses a Tesseract engine bundled inside the extension itself.

## Rankings

- #30,098 — Overall
- #10 — ocr

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `tabs`
- `alarms`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ocr-it)