Ocrad.js – Optical Character Recognition in JavaScript

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Ocrad.js is a pure-javascript version of the Ocrad project, automatically converted using Emscripten. It is a simple OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program that can convert scanned images of text back into text. Clocking in at about a megabyte of Javascript with no hefty training data dependencies.

Unlike GOCR.js, Ocrad.js is designed as a port of the library, rather than a wrapper around the executable. This means that processing subsequent images doesn’t involve reinitializing an executable, so processing an image can be done in as little as an eighth of the time it takes GOCR.js to do the same.