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antimatter15 on April 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables t...

The OCR code is an Emscripten port of the GPL-licensed Ocrad program. I published it on Github a few months ago, http://antimatter15.github.io/ocrad.js/demo.html

But in my experience, the recognition quality isn't good enough to replace Tesseract if you have that capability.

leeoniya on April 22, 2014 [–]

it would be very useful to maybe just use part of the code. (the part that detects where there is text, rather than what the text is)

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