OCR Is Not Redaction: Building Safer Auto-Redaction With Tesseract.js

OCR demos usually stop too early. They show recognize() , print some text, and imply that automatic redaction is basically done. In a real product, that is maybe 20 percent of the job. What users actually need is a safer pipeline: Run OCR on the image. Classify risky spans such as emails, phone numbers, account references, dates, and IDs. Map those matched spans back to OCR word boxes. Pad the boxes so the text edges are fully covered. Insert them as editable regions instead of exporting immedia