It looks like this issues is caused by how Webpack is interacting with the prefer-destructuring rule required by our linter. Therefore, I am disabling this rule.

// The linter prefers this syntax..
const { version } = require('../../../package.json');

// ...and rejects this syntax
const version = require('../../../package.json').version;

However, the latter syntax produces better results. The latter implementation only embeds version in the final bundle, however the former implementation results in the entire package.json file being embedded in the final bundle.

This change decreases the file size of both tesseract.min.js and worker.min.js by 2.7kb each for a total of 5.4kb saved.