/nodeOCR

Implementation of nodecr for a node.js server

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

nodeOCR:

Uses nodecr to run tesseract on base64 encoded images from POST and returns the OCR'ed text.

To install:

  1. Install node.js.
  2. Install tesseract-3.01.
  3. Open install.bat to install nodecr.
  4. Open run.bat to start nodeOCR.
  5. Local webserver will run at http://localhost:8888.
  6. Send XHR with jpeg base64 encoded image as POST body.
  7. nodeOCR will run tesseract on image and return OCR'ed text.

Testing:

nodeOCR/test/test.html