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Are there plans for OCR?


Yes but not in the short term. I'm considering some cloud integration so we could farm off some tasks to OCR and NLP libraries in the cloud. Some of this is too complex for the desktop though.

Some of these features I would have to charge for though as there aren't OSS alternatives.


I'd ask that you consider local alternatives, or at the very least make it opt-in. It would be very annoying to have some awesome open-source document manager send off my documents to the cloud.

There are some surprisingly powerful OCR libraries you could run locally, Tesseract.js not the least of them.

Cheers, and awesome project!

http://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/




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