Skip to content

question:Add Comprehensive README Documentation for wasmedge_ocr Plugin #286

@mrhapile

Description

@mrhapile

Summary

Affected Area

Plugins → plugins/wasmedge_ocr/

The wasmedge_ocr plugin currently lacks any README documentation.
As a result, users and contributors have no guidance on:

  • What OCR capabilities the plugin provides
  • Supported OCR engines or backends
  • Build requirements and dependencies
  • Available APIs and function signatures
  • How to use the plugin with WasmEdge
  • Example workflows (image → text)
  • Common build or runtime issues

This significantly limits discoverability, usability, and contributor onboarding for the plugin.

Why This Issue Is Needed

  • Plugins are a core extensibility feature of WasmEdge
  • Missing documentation blocks real-world usage
  • Increases maintainer support burden
  • Makes onboarding new contributors harder
  • Inconsistent with other well-documented plugins (e.g. wasm_bpf)

Adding proper documentation will immediately improve developer experience and plugin adoption.

Appendix

No response

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    questionFurther information is requested

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    Status

    Triage-required

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions