Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in [almost any language](./docs/tesseract_lang_list.md) out of images using [OCR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition). ([Demo](http://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/))
Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in [almost any language](./docs/tesseract_lang_list.md) out of images. ([Demo](http://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/))
[Check out the docs](#docs) for a full treatment of the API.
[Check out the docs](#docs) for a full treatment of the API.
## Provenance
## Provenance
Tesseract.js wraps an [emscripten](https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) [port](https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js-core) of the [Tesseract OCR Engine](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract).
Tesseract.js wraps an [emscripten](https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) [port](https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js-core) of the [Tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) [OCR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition) Engine.