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Life & fun · October 12, 2016

Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages

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

Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages launched on October 12, 2016 with 727 votes, #8 of 3,690 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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In plain words

Tesseract.js is a JavaScript library that performs optical character recognition (OCR) on images, supporting 60 languages. It runs directly in the browser or Node.js without requiring external services or server-side processing. The tool is designed for developers who need to extract text from images in web applications. It uses machine learning models to recognize characters and works entirely in JavaScript, making it accessible for building OCR features into websites and applications.

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