OCR - Image Text Recognition (Local)

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name: ocr-local

description: Extract text from images using Tesseract.js OCR (100% local, no API key required). Supports Chinese (simplified/traditional) and English.

homepage: https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js

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# OCR - Image Text Recognition (Local)

Extract text from images using Tesseract.js. **100% local run, no API key required.** Supports Chinese and English.

Quick start

node {baseDir}/scripts/ocr.js /path/to/image.jpg
node {baseDir}/scripts/ocr.js /path/to/image.png --lang chi_sim
node {baseDir}/scripts/ocr.js /path/to/image.jpg --lang chi_tra+eng

Options

- `chi_sim` - Simplified Chinese

- `chi_tra` - Traditional Chinese

- `eng` - English

- Combine with `+`: `chi_sim+eng`

Examples

# Recognize Chinese screenshot
node {baseDir}/scripts/ocr.js screenshot.png

# Recognize English document
node {baseDir}/scripts/ocr.js document.jpg --lang eng

# Mixed Chinese + English
node {baseDir}/scripts/ocr.js mixed.png --lang chi_sim+eng

Notes