createWorker hangs or crashes on load errors
Worker errors never reach the caller, so createWorker can hang forever or crash the process instead of rejecting.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 29 August 2022 · last reported 13 September 2026
What's going wrong
Developers using Tesseract.js report that when a worker fails, for example while fetching language data, the error is either never reported to the calling code or is thrown inside an event handler and crashes the host application.
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