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		cheshire137 on July 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open Source OCR in JavaScript I kept giggling at its poor recognition. It's comically bad, but I think it's a step in the right direction. It was very fast at incorrectly identifying letters. If only it were very fast and mostly correct.

azakai on July 30, 2014 [–]

It is good at recognizing machine-generated text - hit the blue arrow - and not that good at human-scribbled text with a mouse, I find.

I assume you were testing hand-written text?

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