HolmesJJ / ocr-apis

OCR APIS

Quick Start

Python

1. Install Anaconda following the link.

2. Create and activate environment using the following commands.

# Create Python environment
conda create --name ocr-apis python=3.10.10

# Check Python environment
conda info --envs

# Activate environment
conda activate ocr-apis

# Deactivate environment
conda deactivate

# Remove environment
conda remove -n ocr-apis --all

3. Install requirements.txt.

pip install -r /path/to/requirements.txt

Google

Setup Authorization

• https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/provide-credentials-adc
• https://googleapis.dev/python/google-api-core/latest/auth.html

// for linux
source ~/.bashrc
// for macOS
source ~/.zshrc

Login Google Cloud

gcloud auth login
gcloud config set project <PROJECT-NAME>
gcloud auth application-default print-access-token

AWS

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/textract/latest/dg/what-is.html

Azure

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/overview-ocr

BaiDu

• https://ai.baidu.com/tech/ocr

PaddleOCR

• https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

Tesseract

• https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

Install Tesseract

brew install tesseract

TypeScript

Create TypeScript Project

cd typescript

tsc --init
npm init
npm link typescript

Compile TypeScript Project

tsc -p .

Run TypeScript Project

npm i
node .