Tesseract Service

Applies tesseract-ocr with english training data on incoming http requests.

Usage

Send a base64 encoded image as the body of a PUT request to http://tesseract-ocr.herokuapp.com/read or the equivalent url of your own hosted app and read the response.

For Example

import http.client
from base64 import b64encode
with open("hello.png", "rb") as file:
  body = b64encode(file.read())
conn = http.client.HTTPConnection("tesseract-ocr.herokuapp.com", 80)
conn.request("PUT", "/read", body)
print(conn.getresponse().read())
conn.close()