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Life & fun · October 12, 2016

Tesseract.js

Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages

Tesseract.js launched on October 12, 2016 with 8 votes, #1,797 of 3,690 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥 - naptha/tesseract.js

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  • Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages2016 · github.com · â–²727

    Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥 - naptha/tesseract.js

  • LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs2024 · github.com · â–²479

    Almost exactly 1 year ago, I submitted something to HN about using Llama2 (which had just come out) to improve the output of Tesseract OCR by correcting obvious OCR errors [0]. That was exciting at the time because OpenAI's API calls were still quite expensive for GPT4, and the cost of running it on a book-length PDF would just be prohibitive. In contrast, you could run Llama2 locally on a machine with just a CPU, and it would be extremely slow, but "free" if you had a spare machine lying around. Well, it's amazing how things have changed since then. Not only have models gotten a lot better,…

  • tesserocr – A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API2016 · github.com · â–²78

    A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API. Contribute to sirfz/tesserocr development by creating an account on GitHub.

  • Gogosseract, a Go Lib for CGo-Free Tesseract OCR via Wazero2023 · github.com · â–²120

    Tesseract is one of the largest Open Source OCR (Optical Character Recognition) projects. There is already a Go library for using Tesseract from Go with CGo, called Gosseract. However if you are interested in OCR from Go without C complicating building and cross-compiling, there aren't any other options. Wazero is a Go WASM runtime that doesn't have any CGo dependencies. With Emscripten Tesseract has been compiled to WASM and ran within Wazero. Gogosseract provides a simple API on top of this. This project has been an interesting delve into the world of WASM.

  • Kaizen OCR2025 · kaizen-apps.com · â–²31

    Fully offline OCR with 100+ languages support. Full Privacy

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    Online OCR Free – Batch OCR UI for Tesseract, Gemini and OpenRouterMar 2026 · onlineocrfree.qzz.io · ▲14

    Built this because people working with large document sets had no free tool that handled batch processing cleanly. Tesseract is free and runs locally. For anything that needs more accuracy — Google Vision, Gemini, or any OpenRouter model — you bring your own API key. No subscription, no markup on your usage. Export as TXT, JSON, XML or PDF. AI engines support custom prompts so you can translate, extract form fields, or get structured output in one step. App: https://onlineocrfree.qzz.io Source: https://github.com/naimurhasan/online-ocr-free

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