Show HN: Locro – Fast and accurate local OCR through Chrome's screen_ai (opens in new tab)

A month ago, @Stagnant posted in this thread about how Chrome ships with a open source OCR tool that is only available from the browser:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977802

This looked incredibly useful but sadly there were no Python wrappers, so I followed his instructions and built one.

It's incredibly fast and accurate (I had my doubts but wow!). I tested the Windows and Linux implementations, and I'm sure expanding the wrapper for macOS should be trivial for a decent LLM.

Hope it's also useful to other users, and thanks again Stagnant for mentioning it in the first place!