Snap OCR — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-06-26 · Dolphin Studio LLC, Wisconsin, USA

Short version: Snap OCR runs 100% on your own device. It collects nothing, sends nothing, makes no network requests, and the pixels it reads never leave your browser.

What it does

When you click the Snap OCR toolbar icon and drag a box over part of a page, the extension reads that region and recognizes the text inside it. All of the optical character recognition (OCR) happens locally in your browser using a text-recognition engine (Tesseract / WebAssembly) that is bundled inside the extension. The recognized text is shown to you and copied to your clipboard. That is all it does.

Data we collect

None. Snap OCR has no servers, no account, no sign-in, no sync, and no backend. We do not collect, transmit, store, sell, or share any of your data — not the images you capture, not the recognized text, and no personal or usage data. We cannot see any of it.

Does anything leave my browser?

No. The captured pixels and the recognized text are processed entirely on your device and never leave the browser. Snap OCR makes no network requests of any kind — it works fully offline, including the OCR engine and its language data, which ship inside the extension. There are no external services, CDNs, or API calls.

Why it needs its permissions

Snap OCR uses activeTab and scripting so that, only after you click its icon, it can draw the selection overlay on the current tab and capture the region you drag over. clipboardWrite is used to copy the recognized text to your clipboard. offscreen hosts the local OCR engine. None of these involve any network access or data collection.

Removing your data

There is nothing stored to remove — Snap OCR keeps no history. Uninstalling the extension removes it completely.

Third parties & analytics

None. No analytics, no ads, no trackers, no external SDKs, no remote code.

Contact

Questions: dolphinstudio101@gmail.com