The World's Fastest Browser-Based OCR

Screen OCR

Other OCR extensions: Draw a box. Wait. Watch the spinner. 3 seconds. 5 seconds. Sometimes 10.

SEO Time Machines: Draw a box. Text appears. You’re already pasting.
The difference? They send your image to a server.
We process it locally.

No upload. No download. No waiting for someone else's API.

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298,273 Lines Of Code

9 Months In Development

World First Browser OS

150+ Tools

The Architecture That Makes It Fast

Most OCR extensions work like this:
1. Capture your selection
2. Upload to cloud API
3. Wait for server processing
4. Download the result
5. Display the text
That’s 4 network requests minimum. Each one adds latency. Each one can fail.
SEO Time Machines works like this:
1. Capture your selection
2. Process locally
3. Done
Zero network requests. Nothing leaves your machine.

Smarter OCR

Preloaded and Ready

Here’s what other extensions don’t do: preloading.

When you press the OCR shortcut, most tools start loading the recognition engine. That’s 1-2 seconds before processing even begins.

Text Sniper preloads Tesseract when the extension starts. By the time you draw your selection, the engine is already waiting. Recognition starts immediately.

Result: 5-10x faster than OCR extensions that load on demand.

OCR Use Cases

Tutorial videos. Conference recordings. Training materials.

PDF Screenshots → Scanned documents, image-based PDFs, historical archives
Video Content → Tutorials, presentations, webinars with on-screen text
Infographics → Data trapped in designed images
Social Media → Text embedded in images, carousels, stories
Competitor Research → Text they’ve locked in graphics

No Cloud.
No Privacy Concerns.

Your screenshot never leaves your computer.

No API keys. No usage limits. No “your image will be deleted after processing” policies.

The OCR engine is bundled. The language data is bundled. Everything runs in your browser’s WebAssembly sandbox.

One of the productivity tools in SEO Time Machines.

OCR vs Click to Copy

Instant DOM Copying vs Image Processing

Click to Copy is the first element-aware clipboard ever built for browsers. It handles DOM elements—text, links, images that exist as HTML. By simply pointing on a page and clicking.

STM OCR handles pixels—anything rendered visually that isn’t in the DOM:

Use Click to Copy for instant content from the DOM.
Use STM OCR for fast text from images.

Keyboard-First Workflow

Total processing time:
Under 600ms for typical selections.

Compare to cloud OCR: 2-10 seconds depending on API latency and server load.