Simon WillisonMar 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

Show threadMolly WhiteMar 30, 2024
@simon nice! i was thinking of trying to do something similar to autogenerate alt text, which i currently tend to do by opening images in chrome and using google lens (far too many clicks)
Show threadJames Young
@molly0xfff @simon in case you didn't know: both Mastodon's web version and Ivory offer OCR for uploaded images
Mar 31, 2024 at 10:01pmWeb