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OCR: How to Extract Text from Private Docs Safely

Mr. Robot Team
March 06, 2026

The Danger of Cloud OCR

Many free OCR services store your images to train their AI. If you are scanning a bank statement or an ID card, this is a massive security breach.

Local Tesseract.js Implementation

Our Image to Text tool uses Tesseract.js, a pure JavaScript port of the famous OCR engine. All the character recognition happens in your browser's thread, so your sensitive documents stay on your machine.