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Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages
CPU-only OCR with clipboard round-trip when cloud APIs dominate the space.
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mrkn1
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Snap any image, screenshot, or webpage into plaintext. No GPU. No cloud. One command.
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Local CPU OCR for images, PDFs, webpages
by mrkn1·May 29, 2026·3 points·0 comments
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CPU-only OCR with clipboard in/out beats Tesseract for modern screenshots.
Strengths
- •Quantized 0.9B VLM runs on plain CPUs without CUDA or cloud APIs
- •Clipboard-to-clipboard workflow makes screenshot-to-text seamless
- •Single Python module with self-installing dependencies
Weaknesses
- •890 MB initial download is heavy for a CLI utility
- •OCR quality depends on PaddleOCR model, no fine-tuning option
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Target Audience
Privacy-focused developers, offline workers
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Tesseract · EasyOCR · NAPS2
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