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Simon Willison Mar 30, 2024

I built a new tool: https://tools.simonwillison.net/ocr - it runs OCR against images and PDFs entirely in your browser (no file upload needed) using Tesseract.js and PDF.js

I wrote more about the tool and how I built it (with copious amounts of Claude 3 Opus and a little bit of ChatGPT) here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/30/ocr-pdfs-images/

OCR PDFs and images directly in your browser

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Alexander Winkler

@simon not sure if this is of interest to @jbaiter , cf. https://openbiblio.social/@jbaiter/110815957206638047

Johannes Baiter (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video 👀 #demotime Ever wish you could search through a #IIIF manifest, but the provider had neither #OCR, nor a #ContentSearch endpoint available? 🪄 You can soon help yourself: Fully client-side OCR and Content Search + Autocomplete for Mirador 3. And it survives page reloads! ✨

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