Privacy Policy

Smart Text Capture is a local-first OCR browser extension. It is designed to recognize text in your browser without uploading captured screenshots or extracted text to a cloud OCR service.

1. Data processing

When you select an area of a page, the extension captures the visible browser tab, crops the selected area, preprocesses the image, and runs OCR locally in your browser using Tesseract.js/WASM.

Captured screenshots are used in memory for OCR and are not saved by default. Extracted text is saved only when local history is enabled.

2. Data storage

The extension stores settings, quota state, license state, and OCR history in chrome.storage.local on your device. History can be disabled in Options, and you can clear history at any time.

3. Data sharing

Smart Text Capture does not upload captured images or extracted text to any server. The current version does not use OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, cloud OCR, or any AI API for recognition.

4. License verification

Paid license features may contact our backend service only to verify license status, process purchases, or support account management. OCR images and extracted text are not sent to that backend.

5. Permissions

The extension requests permissions needed to capture the active visible tab, inject the selection overlay, store local settings and history, add context menu actions, copy text to the clipboard, and run local OCR in an offscreen extension document.

6. Contact

Questions about privacy? Reach us via the contact page or visit AnhBui Dev.