dochive

by Queen Anne's Revenge: Open Source Skunkworks

This version of DocHive introduces many new features. It is still a work in progress, however, it is very functional.

What can you do:
Upload a image based pdf and click convert. OCR each page.
Upload a image based pdf and create new templates for your pages, then convert. OCR only select regions.

Test with the include file "UN Report-28th Session-1973.pdf"

Ruby version

Ruby 2.0.0p247

System dependencies

RMagick
Tesseract 
MySQL

Configuration

Install the Tesseract language packages needed

Database creation

Create dochive_mysql_development in MySQL

Database initialization

Rename the file '/config/default.database.yml' to '/config/database.yml' and update your database user, password, and any other relavant settings.

Build the table structure

bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=development

Seed the database

bundle exec rake db:seed

How to run the application and background queues

In terminal #1 execute the following to run the rails applications

rails s 

In terminal #2 execute the following command to start the background worker job.

bundle exec rake jobs:work

Linux Deployment instructions

In the gemfile, uncomment the line for therubyracer

gem 'therubyracer', platforms: :ruby

In the /app/controllers/documents_controller.rb, uncomment line 7, comment out line 6

#require 'Gchart'
require 'googlecharts' 

Buggy Notes:

You will need to refresh on the Files and Data pages to see updates. This version is designed to strictly support imaged based PDFs. On Linux the /tmp file may not remove generated Magick files. Manual cleanup periodically may be required. PDF images are currently expected in a Portrait style, Landscape images may be distorted. Data exported may appear in duplicates if you are using the default 'selfie' template.

Initial QAR dochive Release on 11 February 2015

Edward Brian Duncan
Charles C Duncan
Damarius L Hayes
Jeff Provencher
Paul McCarn

QAR projects are released under the terms of the MIT license