HemingwayLee / ocr-box-editor-v2

ocr-box-editor-v2

• This project is modified from tesseract-web-box-editor. WordStr boxfile format is supported in this project
• This is a web application to generate training data for tesseract by the following steps
  • Upload images
  • Edit labels (text and bounding box coordinates) for the uploaded images
  • Save images and corresponding labels to backend
• After we collect training data, we can retrain tesseract

prerequisite

• install tesseract
• install python3 and virtualenv

How to install

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt 

How to run

python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py runserver

db.sqlite3 will be created, and then, we can access http://127.0.0.1:8000

Editor

• Upload images and click Process Image button to generate default labels
• Edit labels (text and bounding box coordinates) for the uploaded images
• Save images and corresponding labels (in .box file extension) to backend

Data Viewer

• We can see all uploaded images in the backend by clicking Data tab