MIT ports Tesseract OCR to JavaScript

With their JavaScript port of the Tesseract optical character recognition engine, developers at MIT are looking to provide convenience and lower costs in building image-processing applications.
Tesseract.js, released this month, supports more than 60 languages, automatic text orientation, and script detection. Running in either a browser or a server via Node.js, it features a simple interface for reading paragraph, word, and character bounding boxes.[ Use JavaScript in your dev shop? InfoWorld