Textract Webservice Docker-Image
A simple docker image to serve textract as a REST-API. Based on Python and starlette.
Supported file types
.csv via python builtins
.doc via antiword
.docx via python-docx2txt
.eml via python builtins
.epub via ebooklib
.gif via tesseract-ocr
.jpg and .jpeg via tesseract-ocr
.json via python builtins
.html and .htm via beautifulsoup4
.mp3 via sox, SpeechRecognition, and pocketsphinx
.msg via msg-extractor
.odt via python builtins
.ogg via sox, SpeechRecognition, and pocketsphinx
.pdf via pdftotext (default) or pdfminer.six
.png via tesseract-ocr
.pptx via python-pptx
.ps via ps2text
.rtf via unrtf
.tiff and .tif via tesseract-ocr
.txt via python builtins
.wav via SpeechRecognition and pocketsphinx
.xlsx via xlrd
.xls via xlrd
Build + Run
docker build -t textract .
docker run -t -p 8080:8080 -e PORT=8080 textract .
Usage
See client/client.py for an example.
Request json:
{
"data": <base64 encoded file data>,
"file_type": <file type / extension e. g. png, txt, etc ... (without '.')>
}
Response json:
{
"text": <extracted text utf-8 encoded>
}