handwriting-to-text-slack-bot

A slack bot running in a docker container which recognizes handwritten text for you.

Setup

1. Create a Slack Bot and get the token for it as described here
2. Create a Service Key for Azure Cognitive Services here
3. Start this container

sudo docker run \
-e SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=<YOUR_TOKEN> \
-e SLACK_BOT_NAME=<YOUR_BOT_NAME> \
-e AZURE_COGNITIVE_SERVICES_TOKEN=<YOUR_TOKEN> \
-e AZURE_COGNITIVE_SERVICES_URL=<YOUR_SERVICE_URL>
eifinger/handwriting-to-text-slack-bot:latest

Example:

sudo docker run \
-e SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-725471920163-473829104631-2afTJdhwoSMWJSnfuwkjaf2a \
-e SLACK_BOT_NAME=handwriting-bot \
-e AZURE_COGNITIVE_SERVICES_TOKEN=31987d87237e8129f3891a98397ff997 \
-e AZURE_COGNITIVE_SERVICES_URL=https://westus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/vision/v1.0/RecognizeText
eifinger/handwriting-to-text-slack-bot:latest

Usage

1. Send a file to your bot or in a channel where you added your bot. Be sure to attach a name to the file. A message for the upload is no longer needed

2. The bot answers with two files. One is a text file containing the identified text entities and the other a visual representation of where he found it

Links

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/Computer-vision/quickstarts/python-hand-text
• https://github.com/Microsoft/Cognitive-Vision-Python/blob/master/Jupyter%20Notebook/Handwriting%20OCR%20API%20Example.ipynb