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Chrome will soon automatically OCR PDFs (www.androidpolice.com)

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You think there will be some privacy implications for this?

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[–] styraco 1 points 2 years ago

I doubt that. There is no technical reason for that. OCR isn't that hard computationally. And from a privacy/GDPR perspective this seems like a legal mess not even google would take on.