OCR Service

InterSystems IRIS Interoperability OCR Service

This is an InterSystems IRIS Interoperability OCR Service to extract text from images and pdfs from a file into a multipart request from form or http request.

What The the service does

This application receive a http multipart request with a file, extract text using OCR from Tesseract and returns the result

Prerequisites

Make sure you have git and Docker desktop installed.

Installation: Docker

Clone/git pull the repo into any local directory

$ git clone https://github.com/yurimarx/ocr-service.git

Open the terminal in this directory and run:

$ docker-compose build

3. Run the IRIS container with your project:

$ docker-compose up -d

OCR and NLP working together:

How to Run the Ocr Production

1. Open the production

2. Set host destination folder to the uploaded files. See:

3. Start the production.

4. Now Open Postman or create a multipart request into a form pointing to localhost:9980/ using POST with a form-data file attribute. See sample (use an image or pdf with image inside):

5. See the text returned - support to english and portuguese languages only, in the first version

6. Send 2 or 3 files with some text

7. Go to the NLP Domain Explorer

8. Analyze the texts and enjoy!