Free OCR sites cap you at 15 pages/hour, so I built an unlimited one that runs Tesseract in the browser
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Every free OCR service I tried throttles you: 15 pages/hour, 50 pages/month, or a free tier that exists to push you to a paid plan. The cap makes sense for them, because server compute costs money on every page. The only genuinely unlimited free option has been raw Tesseract on the command line, wh…
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- 2026-10-08 18:43 · DEV Community — AI
Free OCR sites cap you at 15 pages/hour, so I built an unlimited one that runs Tesseract in the browser