Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
HOW is there not a better, almost 100% accurate OCR tool?<p>I routinely (daily) need to OCR PDF files.  The PDF files are not scans. They are PDF files created from a Word file.  The text is 100% clear, the lines are 100% straight, and the type is 100% uniform.<p>And, yet, Microsoft and Google OCR spits out gibberish that is full of critical errors.<p>From a problem solving perspective, this seems like an incredibly easy problem to solve in this exact use case.  That is, PDFs generated from text files. Identify a uniform font size (prevent o-to-O and o-to-0 errors), identify a font-family (serif, sans-serif, narrow to particular fonts), and OCR the damn thing. And yet, the output is useless in my field.