Life & fun · September 16, 2024
Crop and OCR PDFs in the Browser
Crop and OCR PDFs in the Browser launched on September 16, 2024 with 5 votes, #2,535 of 5,281 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
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I just realized you can now open a PDF document in Firefox and select text directly from scanned images embedded in the document (so basically transparently reliable doing OCR). It is also surprisingly reliable, only sometimes mistaking a "oh" for a "zero" in a long string of numbers. I neither know when this was introduced nor who added this feature, but from the bottom of my heart: thank you, thank you, thank you, you have made my daily life a lot easier. I also haven't really explored the limits of the feature and under what conditions it starts failing, but: in my daily workflow so far,…
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