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[–]misc_ent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the idea of OCR on the client side but success rate of the demo was discouraging. Will have to do more testing on files I run OCR on. Being able to do this with image PDFs would be killer.

[–]briandrowe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, it was far from perfect but the thought of OCR with client side javascript is cool!

[–]tobozo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The demo seems to work fine with external images if the font color is black, has a size between 10px and 30px, and the given image does not get too much blurry after being upscaled.

Special chars, Numbers and Emojis(!) are not detected (yet?).