diff --git a/src/components/App/App.tsx b/src/components/App/App.tsx
index b7330ec..f496ac3 100644
--- a/src/components/App/App.tsx
+++ b/src/components/App/App.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import Board from '../Board/Board';
 
 import './App.scss';
 import {findTextRegions} from "../../helpers/findTextRegions";
+import {recognizeTextOnImageGrid} from "../../helpers/recognizeTextOnImage";
 
 export type Point = {
   x: number;
@@ -48,22 +49,13 @@ export default class App extends React.Component {
     image.src = url;
     image.onload = () => {
       console.log("handleTakePhoto: finding text regions...")
-      const {grid, gridWidth, gridHeight} = findTextRegions(image);
-      console.log(grid, gridWidth, gridHeight);
-
-      image.src = "";
+      const r = findTextRegions(image);
+      console.log(r);
       URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
 
-      if (!grid) {
-        return;
+      if (r !== null) {
+        recognizeTextOnImageGrid(r.grid).then(() => {});
       }
-
-      let g = grid[0][0];
-      let ot = document.createElement('canvas');
-      ot.width = g.w;
-      ot.height = g.h;
-      ot.getContext('2d')?.putImageData(g.data, 0, 0);
-      document.body.appendChild(ot);
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/helpers/findTextRegions.js b/src/helpers/findTextRegions.js
index e900fca..e8fcd75 100644
--- a/src/helpers/findTextRegions.js
+++ b/src/helpers/findTextRegions.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ export function findTextRegions(image, maxWhiteSpace, maxFontLineWidth, minTextW
   heightTolerance = heightTolerance ?? 8;
 
   if (!image.width) {
-    return {};
+    return null;
   }
 
   let canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
@@ -131,20 +131,20 @@ export function findTextRegions(image, maxWhiteSpace, maxFontLineWidth, minTextW
     let list = segments[y];
 
     for (let i in list) {
-      const x1 = list[i][0];
-      const y1 = list[i][1];
-      const x2 = list[i][2];
-      const y2 = list[i][3];
+      let x1 = list[i][0];
+      let y1 = list[i][1];
+      let x2 = list[i][2];
+      let y2 = list[i][3];
 
       if (x1 !== -1 && y1 !== -1 && x2 !== -1 && y2 !== -1) {
-        const w = (x2 - x1) + 1;
-        const h = (y2 - y1) + 1;
+        let w = (x2 - x1) + 1;
+        let h = (y2 - y1) + 1;
 
         if (w >= minTextWidth && h >= minTextWidth) {
           foundSegments.push({
-            x: x1 - widthTolerance * 2,
-            y: y1 - heightTolerance,
-            w: w + widthTolerance,
+            x: x1 - widthTolerance * 3,
+            y: y1 - heightTolerance * 1,
+            w: w + widthTolerance * 3,
             h: h + heightTolerance * 2,
           });
         }
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ export function findTextRegions(image, maxWhiteSpace, maxFontLineWidth, minTextW
   // hopefully we found at least something
   if (!foundSegments.length) {
     console.error("findTextRegions(): Error: findTextRegions() did not found anything");
-    return {};
+    return null;
   }
 
   let gridWidth = 0;
@@ -200,7 +200,11 @@ export function findTextRegions(image, maxWhiteSpace, maxFontLineWidth, minTextW
     for (let i = 0; i < gridWidth; i++) {
       let s = foundSegments[segmentOffset + i];
       let croppedData = ctx.getImageData(s.x, s.y, s.w, s.h);
-      grid[j][indexMap[s.x]] = {data: croppedData, ...s}
+      let croppedCanvas = document.createElement('canvas');
+      croppedCanvas.width = s.w;
+      croppedCanvas.height = s.h;
+      croppedCanvas.getContext('2d')?.putImageData(croppedData, 0, 0);
+      grid[j][indexMap[s.x]] = {data: croppedData, canvas: croppedCanvas, ...s}
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/helpers/recognizeTextOnImage.ts b/src/helpers/recognizeTextOnImage.ts
index 52afc5c..94153e7 100644
--- a/src/helpers/recognizeTextOnImage.ts
+++ b/src/helpers/recognizeTextOnImage.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-import {createWorker, ImageLike, PSM} from 'tesseract.js';
+import {createWorker, Worker, ImageLike, PSM} from 'tesseract.js';
 
-export function recognizeTextOnImage(image: ImageLike, isColumn: boolean): string {
-  let out;
+let TEXT_WORKER: Worker | null = null;
+let CHAR_WORKER: Worker | null = null;
 
-  (async () => {
+async function prepareWorker(isColumn: boolean = true): Promise<Worker> {
     const worker = createWorker();
     await worker.load();
     await worker.loadLanguage('pol');
@@ -15,10 +15,56 @@ export function recognizeTextOnImage(image: ImageLike, isColumn: boolean): strin
       tessjs_create_box: '1',
     });
 
-    const { data: { text } } = await worker.recognize(image);
-    out = text;
-    await worker.terminate();
-  })();
-
-  return out || "";
+    return worker;
+}
+
+async function recognize(worker: Worker, image: ImageLike) {
+  return (await worker.recognize(image)).data.text.trim() || "";
+}
+
+export async function recognizeTextOnImage(image: ImageLike): Promise<string> {
+    TEXT_WORKER = TEXT_WORKER ?? await prepareWorker(true);
+    return await recognize(TEXT_WORKER, image);
+}
+
+export async function recognizeTextOnImageGrid(grid: any[][]): Promise<void> {
+  CHAR_WORKER = CHAR_WORKER ?? await prepareWorker(false);
+
+  // no parallelization for now, we can always Promise it all() later
+  for (let line of grid) {
+    for (let g of line) {
+      g.text = await recognize(CHAR_WORKER, g.canvas);
+      //g.data = g.canvas = null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  const polishLetters = ['Ą', 'Ć', 'Ę', 'V', 'Ł', 'Ń', 'Ó', 'Ś', 'Ź', 'Ż'];
+
+  for (let line of grid) {
+    let div = document.createElement('div');
+
+    for (let g of line) {
+      let p = document.createElement('p');
+      p.style.paddingRight = '5px';
+      p.style.paddingBottom = '5px';
+      p.style.marginTop = '-5px';
+      p.style.textAlign = 'right';
+      // bug fix, this letter is rarely recognized
+      p.innerText = g.text || "V";
+
+      let innerDiv = document.createElement('div');
+      innerDiv.style.display = 'inline-block';
+      let color = polishLetters.includes(p.innerText) ? 'red' : 'blue';
+      innerDiv.style.border = `3px solid ${color}`;
+      innerDiv.style.marginLeft = '3px';
+      innerDiv.style.marginBottom = '3px';
+      innerDiv.style.width = '70px';
+      innerDiv.style.height = '70px';
+      innerDiv.appendChild(g.canvas);
+      innerDiv.appendChild(p);
+
+      div.appendChild(innerDiv);
+    }
+    document.body.appendChild(div);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 4680854..657c809 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
-    "target": "es6",
+    "target": "es2017",
     "lib": [
       "dom",
       "dom.iterable",