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I wonder why couldn't this be done using all client-side javascript implementations? I wouldn't mind waiting a few seconds to select versus sending that data to

by jadbox 7y ago

I wonder why couldn't this be done using all client-side javascript implementations? I wouldn't mind waiting a few seconds to select versus sending that data to a remote server (and paying for that server through ads or subscription).

antimatter15 7y ago
(creator here) That's exactly what pressing "Disable Lookup" does. We started a fairly popular Emscripten/WebAssembly port of the Tesseract OCR engine specifically to advance the state of client-side javascript OCR engines: https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com However, there's a limit to the kind of performance that you can get out of client side javascript OCR engines— with a shared server you can get better recognition on certain popular images.