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peteretep | 4 years ago

> Tesseract.js wraps an emscripten port of the Tesseract OCR Engine

Calling this “pure JavaScript” seems misleading

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mkl|4 years ago

Yes, it's kind of weird, since there's no benefit to claiming false things like "Tesseract.js is a pure Javascript port [...]". Say it's WASM, since people associate that with speed and newness (and heavyweight dependencies, but there's no hiding that).

azakai|4 years ago

Skimming the download, this does indeed use wasm, but it's also possible to build to pure JS with emscripten (in WASM=0 mode, wasm2js compiles the wasm to JS). Perhaps that's what they used to do and the docs have not been updated or something like that.