Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in your browser

I attended the Story Discovery At Scale data journalism conference at Stanford this week. One of the perennial hot topics at any journalism conference concerns data extraction: how can we best get data out of PDFs and images?

I've been having some very promising results with Gemini Pro 1.5, Claude 3 and GPT-4 Vision recently - I'll write more about that soon. But those tools are still inconvenient for most people to use.

Meanwhile, older tools like Tesseract OCR are …

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