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electron-ocr
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The electron-ocr
module provides an easy to use Optical Character Recognition library with Electron applications by leveraging the Ocrad.js library.
With npm do:
npm install electron-ocr
Initialize the OCR library:
ocr.set();
Uses with the following versions:
"jquery": "^2.2.0",
"ocrad.js": "0.0.1"
electron-ocr
If you're integrating the module in a creative way, please submit a pull request so your application can be featured above.
To submit patches:
Features that would be nice to include:
Please open an issue if you have any other updates that would be nice to have.
The electron-ocr
module is released under the MIT license.
FAQs
Optical Character Recognition module for Electron Applications
We found that electron-ocr demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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