OCR-API

The microservice that powers Quotient's image text extraction & image duplicacy detection needs.

What it does?

If put simply, In response to an HTTP request containing an array of Image URLs, the API performs the following:

• Make those images sharper, remove colors, etc., and then extract whatever text they contain.
• Generate a Perceptual & Difference hash for the images.

In response to a valid HTTP Post request, a similar response to the following example is expected.

Example Usage

We are using the following image

Response:

Want to run a local instance?

Make sure you have Docker installed on your machine.

• Clone the repository.
• Rename the .example.env file to .env and fill in the required values.
• Run make run command in the root directory of the repository.
• This should start up an instance on localhost:8080.

License

This project is licensed under the MPL-2.0 license - see the LICENSE file for details.

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