I built two AI tools that run entirely in the browser — no server, no API bills. Here's what worked and what didn't.
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I've been building a free converter toolkit (Toolbench), and wanted to add some AI-powered tools without taking on API costs or a backend. Turns out you can run real AI models — OCR and image upscaling — entirely client-side using WebAssembly and TensorFlow.js. What worked: OCR via Tesseract.js — g…
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- 2026-09-20 08:37 · DEV Community — AI
I built two AI tools that run entirely in the browser — no server, no API bills. Here's what worked and what didn't.