library laraocr

alimranahmed/laraocr

Laravel Optical Character Reader(OCR) package using different OCR engines like Tesseract

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LaraOCR

Laravel Optical Character Reader(OCR) package using ocr engines like Tesseract under the hood., _(*2)

Features

1. Read text from image using WebUI/Programing Interface
2. Can be used as Laravel Facade
3. Configurable and extendable

Requirements

OCR Engine Tesseract should be install in the system(e.g. for ubuntu sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr). Follow Tesseract installation guide here. Make sure from the command line you have the tesseract command available., _(*3)

Installation

Execute the following command in your terminal while you are in the root directory of your Laravel project to install this package:, _(*4)

composer require alimranahmed/laraocr

Then, publish this package using php artisan vendor:publish command, _(*5)

That's All!, _(*6)

Usages

This package can be used to read text from image to text using different type of interface like Web and Programming., _(*7)

Programming

From anywhere of your code you can simply access the OCR facade to scan image as below:, _(*8)

\OCR::scan($imagePath);

WebUI

After successful installation of this package we already have a web interface to parse text from image. Simply go to {project-url}/ocr, select your image then click the Parse Image button., _(*9)

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Upload Image, _(*11)

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Uploaded Image, _(*13)

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Parsed text, _(*15)

Wish list

• [x] Artisan command to read image and show parsed text from CLI
• [ ] Restful API to accept image and return parsed text
• [ ] Multilingual support
• [ ] Adding More options which are already available in OCR engines

Contribution

Anyone is always welcome to contribute on the project. If you want to work with: 1. Just create and issue(even if you want to fix the issue). 2. After fixing any issue or adding any new feature just send a pull request 3. I will be happy to add your code for the betterment of this project. Thanks.., _(*16)

License

This package is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0, _(*17)