Privacy Policy – ImgOcrTxt Image to Text Converter

1. Overview & Commitment to User Privacy

At ImgOcrTxt (referred to as "we", "us", or "our"), accessible via imgocrtxt.com, we value the trust you place in us when using our optical character recognition (OCR) and document extraction services. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of data we process, how that data is handled during active OCR conversions, and the robust security measures we employ to protect your privacy.

2. How OCR Processing Works & Data Flow

Understanding how our OCR technology processes uploaded files:

• Transmission: When you select or drop an image (JPG, PNG, PDF, WEBP, etc.) into the converter, the file is compressed and sent via HTTPS over an encrypted TLS connection directly to our backend inference endpoint.
• In-Memory Processing: The neural vision model inspects the visual pixels in ephemeral memory buffer to identify characters, tabular cells, and layout hierarchies.
• Immediate Deletion: As soon as the optical character recognition is completed and the extracted text payload is returned to your browser session, the server memory is immediately freed. No file is retained on any local filesystem or long-term cloud storage bucket.
• No AI Training on User Files: We do not pool, store, or utilize your images, invoices, handwritten documents, or extracted text to train public artificial intelligence models.

3. Information We Do NOT Collect

We believe in strict data minimization. ImgOcrTxt does NOT collect or store:

4. Information Automatically Collected (Technical Logs)

Like virtually all web applications, our infrastructure web servers collect standard, non-personally identifiable diagnostic information necessary to ensure security, rate limiting, and uptime:

• Browser & Device Metadata: User-agent string, browser version, operating system, and preferred language.
• Network Metadata: IP address (utilized strictly for rate limiting, DDoS mitigation, and geographic routing).
• Performance Telemetry: HTTP status codes, timestamp of request, and response latency to diagnose service health.

5. Cookies & Local Storage

ImgOcrTxt uses minimal browser storage (such as localStorage) exclusively to store your interface preferences (e.g. last selected OCR language, table mode toggle, or dark/light theme). We do not use intrusive cross-site tracking cookies. For complete details, please read our dedicated Cookie Policy.

6. Third-Party Infrastructure & Subprocessors

To provide high-availability optical character recognition globally, we partner with industry-leading cloud infrastructure providers:

• Cloudflare / Edge CDN: For DNS management, edge caching, and protection against automated bot attacks and malicious DDoS traffic.
• Google Cloud / AI Studio Vision Inference: For executing state-of-the-art vision and OCR neural models under enterprise privacy agreements that prohibit permanent data retention or training on customer payloads.

7. International Compliance (GDPR & CCPA/CPRA)

We comply with international data privacy frameworks, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA):

• Right of Access & Portability: Since we do not retain your images or text, there is no persistent personal data profile to export.
• Right to Erasure: Files are purged automatically upon completion of the inference response.
• No Sale of Personal Information: We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information or uploaded documents under any circumstances.

8. Security & Encryption Standards

All communications between your web client and our processing endpoints are secured using modern Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3 / HTTPS) encryption with modern cipher suites. Our cloud runtime isolates processing containers and applies strict least-privilege security controls.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may periodically update this policy to reflect enhancements in our OCR technology or evolving regulatory requirements. Any revisions will be reflected with an updated "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.