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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by kuschku on Friday September 22, 2017 @05:32PM (#15316024)
Just like with AJAX sites, Google will simply support it.

But writing third-party search engines will become even more impossible.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by Jyaif on Saturday September 23, 2017 @10:41AM (#15319936)
OCR is really not that hard to do.
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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by kuschku on Saturday September 23, 2017 @10:45AM (#15319959)
For english. Do it reliably for many 27 languages, with many different fonts, and the results are useless.

Even Google’s OCR utility can’t reliably detect German Umlaute in fancy fonts.

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