MIT ports Tesseract OCR to JavaScript

With their JavaScript port of the Tesseract optical character recognition engine, developers at MIT are looking to provide convenience and lower costs in building image-processing applications.

Tesseract.js, released this month, supports more than 60 languages, automatic text orientation, and script detection. Running in either a browser or a server via Node.js, it features a simple interface for reading paragraph, word, and character bounding boxes.

"We've seen people use it to build Web applications for scanning receipts, for motivational poster applications, and in general it's useful for anything where user-supplied pictures with text on them need to be recognized or edited," said co-developers Kevin Kwok and Guillermo Webster, students at MIT.

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