Lazyweb question for y'all:

What if I've been spoiled by the ability of the Mastodon web client to do a one-push-of-a-button optical character recognition operation on images, as part of the alt-text entry interface?

I know NOTHING about the back-end software, services, or APIs that power that. But I want it in WordPress -- a plugin to grab text from an image as part of "Add Media" operation.

FOSS if possible; sustainable software always preferred!

#WordPress #Plugin #OCR #FOSS #Alt #AltText

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@ErosBlog I would *assume* that it uses tesseract, because I think pretty much every FOSS thing with OCR does. Perhaps someone has made a Wordpress plugin for that?

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No idea about PHP, but https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js ought to work in the browser.

(The corresponding npm package appears to not have been updated in four years and shows a security warning to me - the repo was updated as far as I can tell)

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