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Re:Show HN: Extract text from any pdf in the browser by blaydator on Friday April 24, 2020 @09:25AM (#22967686)
Thanks ! Indeed I'am using Tesseract.js [1] which wraps an WASM port of the Tesseract OCR Engine (v4). Stack is pretty simple : Vue.js, Vuetify[2] (absolutely fond of it) and Tesseract and hosted on Netlify (with Analytics [3] so no trackers).

I will probably open sourced it :)

[1] https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js [2] https://vuetifyjs.com/en/ [3] https://www.netlify.com/products/analytics/

Re:Show HN: Extract text from any pdf in the browser by aaronedam on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:18AM (#22968178)
I guess, Mozilla's pdfjs also should be there?
Re:Show HN: Extract text from any pdf in the browser by blaydator on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:07AM (#22968751)
Exactly, I completely forgot it. Thanks!