File OCR with NodeJS. Transforming pdf/txt/doc/docx/jpeg|jpg|png
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- SublimeText or other file editor
- NPM
- Node JS
- Express, node network app framework
- Multer, middleware for handling multipart/form-data
Download the project, and inside the main folder, just run the follow command for dependences installation
$ npm installIn app.js file, I configurated the http PORT to 3000, you can change as you wanted, so, in this example, when start this example, it will be released in localhost:3000 address :)
To test if the OCR is working fine, just test in localhost:3000/file, the application will return in the same page the text processed
If you want to test mult-files, access localhost:3000/files
So, open your favorite Terminal and run these command.
$ node appFor image processing, you need to create a account in Google Cloud Plataform and follow the instructions to get the JSON auth for API request.
Note that Google Vision, you need to pay for use it, but you can try the Tesseract Project from Google which is free, but the results are not so accurated
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