Tesseract.js

Tesseract.js is a pure Javascript port of the popular Tesseract OCR engine. 

This library supports more than 100 languages, automatic text orientation and script detection, a simple interface for reading paragraph, word, and character bounding boxes. Tesseract.js can run either in a browser and on a server with NodeJS. 

Check out the Example code and API docs on GitHub.

https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com

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