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# [My browser OCR couldn't read a sunscreen bottle. Here's what fixed it.](https://madhushankarox.hashnode.dev/making-browser-ocr-read-phone-photos?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Why Tesseract.js turned phone photos into gibberish, and the fixes that worked: EXIF rotation, inverted text and merging OCR passes.

4d ago · 10 min read · madhushankarox.hashnode.dev  
Updated 3d ago  
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