Tesseract.js: Turn Images Into Text in Your Browser

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Tesseract.js, an open source library, turns pictures of words into text you can edit. It reads printed words from photos and scans. You are building an app that needs to read text from images. You want to do this without sending private pictures to a server. That is the problem. Tesseract.js is an open source project that runs in your browser. It uses a web worker to read text from over one hundred languages. The demo shows a photo of a page. The library finds the words and shows them as text. You can see the result right away. Tesseract.js is a free tool that reads text from images in your browser. It works offline and keeps your pictures on your device.

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