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 threadMandar Vaze (desipenguin)Mar 31, 2024

@simon Simon (and/or anyone in this thread) :

Is there a good tool/library for extracting text from handwritten note (converted to image via photo) ?
Tesseract doesn't work well.
I tried Google lens with better result, but that mean I need to upload the image to their server.

#ocr for #handwritten text

Show threadMandar Vaze (desipenguin)
I came across https://notes.joeldare.com/handwritten-text-recognition from Simon's post being discussed on HN
Handwritten Text Recognition

Apr 1, 2024 at 4:05amWeb