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As long as it can be turned off and does not use any non-local services for OCR it’s a good addition. As much as convenience is nice, privacy still has to come first.
The OCR is offline, using Tesseract, there is nothing online about it.
It only activates when you press a button, so there is nothing to turn off either.
this is the way. They get nice stuff done without shoving AI in. Eat shit microslop!