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!
@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?
@ErosBlog @joepie91
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)
@joepie91 That's the hope, thanks!