Optimize and Expand "Meow OCR" Platform
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Python, SEO, Mobile App Development, Social Media Marketing, UI / User Interface, Web Development, Flask, User Experience Research · Meow OCR — Free Online OCR & Document AI Platform
Meow OCR is a live, fully-functional online OCR tool that extracts editable text from PDFs, images and documents in 19+ languages — plus a document translator, a Groq-powered AI chatbot, and an AI handwritten-notes scanner. Everything is 100% free: no signup, no credit card, no watermark.
Built by independent developer Siva and running at https://www.meowocr.onrender.com, the project is already in production with real users.
What's already built
Multi-format text extraction: PDF (multi-page), JPG/PNG/TIFF images, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX/CSV, TXT, RTF, ODT/ODS and HTML. Smart OCR: automatic language detection per page (19+ languages including Tamil, Hindi and English), orientation/scene detection, and an image preprocessing pipeline (contrast, sharpen, threshold, deskew) for photos and scans. Document translation: extraction plus machine translation into a chosen language. AI features: "Meow Assistant" support chatbot and AI handwriting transcription that reads notes from photos (powered by Groq). Reliable processing: background jobs with live progress %, ETA, checkpoint auto-resume, cancel/retry, rate limiting, and security guards agai