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Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2016-10-02 · latest 2022-05-09

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  1. The total size of the download seems to be 3-4MB (based on https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js/blob/master/docs/loca... ), which is actually less than I expected.
    comment by mkl · 2021-08-08 · in Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine
  2. …in need of an update. It's using an ancient 4 yo. version of tesseract.js. The current version: https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js is based on tesseract v4.1.1, a newer your Ubuntu 18.04's. The 4.0 version added new neural network…
    comment by slacka · 2021-07-31 · in In-Browser OCR
  3. …and hosted on Netlify (with Analytics [3] so no trackers). I will probably open sourced it :) [1] https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js [2] https://vuetifyjs.com/en/ [3] https://www.netlify.com/products/analytics/
    comment by blaydator · 2020-04-24 · in Show HN: Extract text from any pdf in the browser
  4. They are the same people behind the javascript port of the tesseract OCR engine: https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js Here's an online notebook for trying it: https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/tesseract-js-v2-alpha
    comment by zawerf · 2019-09-09 · in Project Naptha: Make Text in Browser Images Selectable
  5. …if anyone wants to do OCR in their browser: https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/tesseract-js-v2-alpha https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js
    comment by jacobolus · 2019-07-19 · in Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft
  6. …client side :) You can even host the external language files yourself as described in the readme: https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js#local-installation
    comment by bijection · 2016-10-13 · in Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
  7. Tesseract's Github Readme actually recommends upscaling for better results: https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js#tesseractrecognizeima... > Note: image should be be sufficiently high resolution. Often, the same image will get much better…
    comment by kixpanganiban · 2016-10-13 · in Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
  8. Apache-2.0 They've added https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js/blob/c26cae7ee956c399...
    comment by talklittle · 2016-10-12 · in Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
  9. Thanks! Fixed. The actual link is https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js/blob/master/docs/tess...
    comment by bijection · 2016-10-12 · in Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
  10. Languages list link is broken - getting 404 for the following https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js/blob/master/tesseract...
    comment by mdani · 2016-10-12 · in Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages