Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in [almost any language](./tesseract_lang_list.md) out of images.
Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in [almost any language](./tesseract_lang_list.md) out of images. Under the hood, Tesseract.js wraps [tesseract.js-core](https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js-core) an [emscripten](https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) port of the [Tesseract OCR Engine](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract).
[Check out the docs](#docs) for a full treatment of the API.
# Tech
Under the hood, Tesseract.js wraps an [emscripten](https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) port of the [Tesseract OCR Engine](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract).
# Installation
Tesseract.js works with a `<script>` tag via local copy or cdn, with webpack and browserify via `npm`, and on node via `npm`. [Check out the docs](#docs) for a full treatment of the API.
## Script Tag
## <script/>
You can either include Tesseract.js on you page with a cdn like this: