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Works really well!

Just tried it in french with some accents and I was impressed to see a perfect OCR.

Are you using tesseract? Are you planning on open-sourcing this? Could you tell us a bit more about the stack behind this?

In any case great project, well done!

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Thanks ! Indeed I'am using Tesseract.js [1] which wraps an WASM port of the Tesseract OCR Engine (v4). Stack is pretty simple : Vue.js, Vuetify[2] (absolutely fond of it) and Tesseract and hosted on Netlify (with Analytics [3] so no trackers).

I will probably open sourced it :)

[1] https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js [2] https://vuetifyjs.com/en/ [3] https://www.netlify.com/products/analytics/

I guess, Mozilla's pdfjs also should be there?

Exactly, I completely forgot it. Thanks!

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