Pytheract

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Optical character recognition using tesseract

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Usage
• Installation
• Features to include (Help needed)
• Contribute

Introduction

An application that extract meaningful data from any type of files.

Usage

For end users.

Currently in progress to set up an environment

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Flow

• Upload a file using the frontend.
• Tesseract will extract the texts available in the file uploaded.

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Installation

For developers.

Prerequisites

The application has a number of dependencies. Kindly ensure you have the following installed on your machine:

• Python
• Python packages (Complete details provided below)
• Mongo
• Mongodb compass(optional , alternatives available)
• Tesseract
• Git

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• Python

  • Official download.

• Tesseract

  • Offcial documentation.
  • Offcial download section.
  • V5 alpha using in dev machine.

• Mongo

  • Official download.

• Compass

  • Official download.

• Git

  • Official download.

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  Running the Application

  1. Install Python if it is not installed already. Add the environment variables and check version.

    C:\Users\username> python
    Python 3.8.5 (tags/v3.8.5:580fbb0, Jul 20 2020, 15:43:08) [MSC v.1926 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

  2. Install Mongodb if it is not installed already.
  3. Install Mongodb compass. ( Client )
  4. Go to Mongo db bin folder and run the server

  C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.4\bin> mongod

  It will be available in port 27017

  5. Go to compass get in to the db

    mongodb://localhost:27017

  6. Install Tesseract

  7. Clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/SandeepBalachandran/Pytheract.git

  8. Check into the cloned repository

  cd Pytheract

  9. If you are using Pipenv, setup the virtual environment and start it as follows:

  pipenv install 

  10. Run Flask

  set FLASK_APP=app.py
  set FLASK_ENV=development
  flask run 

  It will be available in port 5000

Features

• Extraction texts from pdf files.
• Extraction texts from zip files contains both images and pdf files.
• Get webcam on UI.
• Capture image/ extract texts from captured image.
• Using regex locate specific contents . For eg: Email address, Phone number etc

Contribute

Please check the Contributing Guidelines before contributing.