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2026-04-22 13:49
OCR Is Not Redaction: Building Safer Auto-Redaction With Tesseract.js
OCR demos usually stop too early.
They show recognize(), print some text, and imply that automatic redaction is basically done. In a real product, that is maybe 20 percent of the job.
What users actually need is a safer pipeline:
Run OCR on the image.
Classify risky spans such as emails, phone numbers, account references, dates, and IDs.
Map those matched spans back to OCR word boxes.
Pad the ...