AI article
Running OCR entirely in the browser (and making scanned PDFs editable)
Community description: A few months ago I needed to change one line in a scanned contract. Every "free" PDF site I tried...
Dev.to | Oct 13, 2026 | Madhi Omar
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OCR happens in two steps: find the lines, then read each line. Flood fill to group connected text pixels into regions. Tesseract then sees near-black text on near-white paper.
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