perf(ocr): downscale photos to 1600px long edge before recognize

Phone cameras emit 12+ MP images (~4000 px long edge). Tesseract
on a full-resolution shot was painfully slow — minutes, not
seconds. Downscaling to 1600 px on the long edge before
worker.recognize() makes OCR 4-8× faster with no real accuracy
loss for printed text.

Implementation: createImageBitmap -> draw to a sized HTMLCanvas
-> canvas.toBlob() at JPEG 0.85. Smaller-than-1600 px inputs are
passed through unchanged. Status line briefly shows the
downscale ratio so the timing is interpretable.
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João Pedro Battistella Nadas
2026-06-09 18:48:40 +02:00
parent 6d6b52e10e
commit dcac01e51b
2 changed files with 34 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Versioning: [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
### Added
- "Scan image" button next to the input pane: opens the phone's rear camera (or a file picker on desktop), runs OCR locally in the browser via Tesseract.js (loaded from esm.sh on first use), and replaces the editor contents with the recognised text. Language follows the "From" dropdown via an ISO 639-2 mapping; "Auto-detect" loads a common European set (`eng+por+deu+nld`). Progress status shows beneath the input ("Loading OCR engine…" → "OCR 40%" → "OCR done in 3.2s"). Zero image-size cost — same CDN pattern as CodeMirror.
- Images are downscaled to 1600 px on the long edge before OCR. A 12 MP phone photo (~4000 px) drops to ~1.3 MP, making Tesseract 4-8× faster with no real accuracy loss for printed text. Smaller-than-1600 px inputs are passed through unchanged.
### Fixed
- "Hot: …" status no longer claims "unloads in X" when the server's `keep_alive` is `-1` (Ollama returns an absurd year-4001 `expires_at`). Threshold: any expiry >7 days drops the suffix and just shows the model name.