Online OCR

I was thinking recently how to speed up in an intelligent way the creation of image maps with my online utility. Often users try to map images like this: The user will select “Home” and try to map it, giving it an url, adding an alt attribute. Now what if we could prefill the alt attribute with the text “Home”? Optical character recognition (OCR) in javascript? Wow, that would rock!

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Adam Maschek

Engineering Leader

CTO@Westwing

Munich, Germany