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Sikuli is good for desktop automation. For browser automation an extension based solution (such as this one) is easier to use.

I like the name. But how is this extension different from iMacros, Selenium IDE or UI.vision?

These extensions are some well-known browser automation tools, each with > 100K users.

Did you look at them and decided to do something different?

Please be accurate. Correct would be: They removed a book they consider anti-semitic. That is quite different from what you stated.

But great to include the source.

"The primary entry point for this API is a file picker (i.e. a chooser)."

...so what would be difference to today, where a user can "upload" files to the browser's local storage, and then the web app can work with the file(s)?

I get it that you avoid to have to "re-download" the file, but that seems to be a small benefit for the risks we get.

With Abbyy and ocr.space Local there are good and (for companies) affordable local OCR solutions available. There is really no need to use online(!) OCR for sensitive data. Plus, local ocr is faster.

But the website says:

Your license comes with a year’s worth of updates. Once that year is up, you can keep using the last version of Sketch you downloaded, forever.

That sounds ok to me.

Sikuli's big advantage is that it is cross-platform. If you are on Windows, KantuX does the same but optimised for Windows desktop automation.

The "best tool" is different for web developers and non-coders. If you are a non-technical person that just needs some data there is:

(1) hosted services like mozenda

(2) visual automation tools like Kantu Web Automation (which includes OCR)

(3) and last but not least outsourcing the scraping on sites like Freelancer.com