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I was pretty careful to credit Tesseract.js - it's linked at the top of the tool itself https://tools.simonwillison.net/ocr and prominently in the article I wrote: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/30/ocr-pdfs-images/

What else should I have done?

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It's all subjective. Reading your linked blog made it perfectly clear for me you built this using tesseract.js. No idea what the other guys are complaining about.

I drafted a few longer responses about the feeling that I had after reading your post after that headline but they were a bit unavoidably asshole-y! So really, just something like "with Tesseract.js" in the headline is all I would think could be helpful to people on sites like HN. I do like your writing. But I do enjoy knowing what I'm reading specifically if possible, when it's tech.

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