2025
Solo build
An app that extracts the printed data from a photo of an Aadhaar card, so it can be checked instead of typed.
A web app that reads an image of an Aadhaar card and pulls the printed fields out of it, so they can be checked instead of typed. OCR runs in Tesseract.js. React on the front, Express and Node behind it, and no database at all: nothing is stored.
What it does
You upload a photo of an Aadhaar card and it returns the printed details as text you can verify and correct, rather than transcribing them by hand. Optical character recognition is handled by Tesseract.js.
How it’s built
React on the front, Express and Node for the API. Tesseract.js handles the recognition pass. There is no database: the image is read, the text is returned, and nothing is kept afterwards.
Why I built it
Everything else I’d built moved records around. I wanted something different from that, where the work is interpreting a photo rather than storing a form.