Show HN: OCR.chat
OCR.chat is a tool that extracts text from images and PDFs using optical character recognition (OCR) and allows users to interact with the extracted content through a chat interface.
Background
- OCR.chat is a web tool that lets you extract text from images (screenshots, scanned documents, photos) using optical character recognition (OCR), then paste or edit the result in a chat-like interface.
- Many existing OCR tools are either limited in accuracy, require sign-ups, or are buried inside larger document apps. OCR.chat seems to position itself as a fast, free, no-login alternative.
- The "Show HN" prefix means the creator posted it on Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com), a tech community where founders and developers showcase side projects. This is often a way to get early feedback and users.
- The tool likely uses a modern OCR engine (e.g., Tesseract or a cloud API) behind the scenes, though the site itself just presents a clean text-extraction UI.