Ocr-node

A NodeJs application using OCR

tags: #nodejs #javascript #ocr #ES6 #babel

get all images	Delete an Image by name

Features

• Get Text from Image
• Store image's Text at a database
• different language
• Scan Images only one time
• Possible extention

Remark

• We put Images file so if we want to test it with a Fronted, we can store the images at that folder for traitement and delete them after if demanded

Technologies

• NodeJs version used for the project ( last stable version : 12.13.0), you can use any version.
• The IDE is Webstorm
• MongoDb database to test the solution
• The Ocr used is : https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-tesseract-ocr
• ES6 javascript

Structure

• /src
  • Models : for our Schemas
  • Controllers : to put the functions
  • Routes : our routes
  • Images : where we can store the images that need to be processes

Installation

• touch .env
• add $PORT variable and MongoDB url -put an Image at : /src/images folder
• go to : src/controllers/TesseractController.js ,change the variable imageName at getTextFromImage function with the name of your image
• npm run start_dev
• $get http://localhost:5000/api/tessarect
• the link with all the image's text : http://localhost:5000/api/tessarect/all
• you can manipulate some functions such as deleting or you send the file name using Postman for example and using imageName in your body

Support

Reach out to me at one of the following places!

• fm_chohra@esi.dz

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License

• MIT license
• Copyright 2019 ©