Hi, basically I'm looking for a starting point to scan an image and retrieve text from it. I want to say some sort of JS library might be the right direction but I'm not sure.
Excel and scanning images
I'll be somewhat surprised if there's anything in JS that does text character recognition from images. You'd probably have to upload the image to the server and have something running there that can do that. A quick search in github suggests they have lots of OCR (optical character recognition) repositories.
Ahh thanks, I wasn't sure if that was the right direction
23 days later
Looks like there's a JS port of Tesseract. I don't know how you plan to get the bytes of your image to your JS code, but that might be useful. Google offers some OCR as well.