Tesseract as a Service

This is a demonstration repo on how to expose Tesseract through an API.

Building and starting the server

Build a docker image that embeds what's necessary:

make build

Then run a container exposing the service:

make run

This will start a server available through http://localhost:5055

Testing

If your locally cloned the repo, you can run a test using our sample image and CURL. Just run the following bash command:

curl -X POST -F file=@data/image.png http://localhost:5055/ocr

You should see the following JSON output:

{
	"content": "The (quick) [brown] {fox} jumps!\nOver the $43,456.78 <lazy> #90 dog\n& duck/goose, as 12.5% of E-mail\nfrom [email protected] is spam.\nDer ,.schnelle\u201d braune Fuchs springt\niiber den faulen Hund. Le renard brun\n\u00abrapide\u00bb saute par-dessus le chien\nparesseux. La volpe marrone rapida\nsalta sopra il cane pigro. El zorro\nmarron rapido salta sobre el perro\nperezoso. A raposa marrom rapida\nsalta sobre o c\u00e9o preguicoso.\n\f"
}

You should also see the log on requesting the server in the server logs.

Warning

This is for demonstration purpose only, don't use the code as is in production as it is not optimized for it, neither follows security standards.