[Question]: How to pass --skip-text to watcher.py in docker container?

[dolorosus]

What were you trying to do?

I tried to pass --skip-text to ocrmypdf via watcher.py.

   environment:
      - OCR_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_YEAR_MONTH=0
      - OCR_ON_SUCCESS_ARCHIVE=1
      - OCR_DESKEW=1 
      - PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 
      - OCR_USE_POLLING=1
      - OCR_JSON_SETTINGS='{"skip-text":true}'

But after a fresh build of the docker container I get now:

2023-10-26T21:21:54.356524247Z ╭─ Error ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
2023-10-26T21:21:54.356642450Z │ Invalid value for '--ocr-json-settings': ''{"skip-text":true}'': No such     │
2023-10-26T21:21:54.356668043Z │ file or directory                                                            │
2023-10-26T21:21:54.356689895Z ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
2023-10-26T21:21:56.791233943Z Usage: watcher.py [OPTIONS] [INPUT_DIR] [OUTPUT_DIR] [ARCHIVE_DIR]
2023-10-26T21:21:56.793087098Z Try 'watcher.py --help' for help.

in the logfile.

How can I pass the skip-text option to ocrmypdf?

Where are you installing from?

Docker container

What operating system are you working on?

Linux

Relevant log output

2023-10-26T21:21:54.356524247Z ╭─ Error ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
2023-10-26T21:21:54.356642450Z │ Invalid value for '--ocr-json-settings': ''{"skip-text":true}'': No such     │
2023-10-26T21:21:54.356668043Z │ file or directory                                                            │
2023-10-26T21:21:54.356689895Z ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
2023-10-26T21:21:56.791233943Z Usage: watcher.py [OPTIONS] [INPUT_DIR] [OUTPUT_DIR] [ARCHIVE_DIR]
2023-10-26T21:21:56.793087098Z Try 'watcher.py --help' for help.

[jbarlow83]

ocr_json_settings is currently set up to read a file rather than parse JSON from a string.
I suppose it would be worth having the code try both - but for now, you need to create a separate JSON file.

[dolorosus]

Sorry for any inconvenience , but can you go a little bit more in detail?
I created a json file with this content:

{
    "skip-text": true
}

and point OCR_JSON_SETTINGS to it, but I got this result::

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625344293Z ╭───────────────────── Traceback (most recent call last) ──────────────────────╮

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625497773Z │ /app/watcher.py:268 in main                                                  │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625542329Z │                                                                              │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625565532Z │   265 │   │   ),                                                             │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625587421Z │   266 │   │   manage_root_logger=True,                                       │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625608921Z │   267 │   )                                                                  │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625629772Z │ ❱ 268 │   log.setLevel(loglevel)                                             │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625650791Z │   269 │   log.info(                                                          │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625671550Z │   270 │   │   f"Starting OCRmyPDF watcher with config:\n"                    │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625692976Z │   271 │   │   f"Input Directory: {input_dir}\n"                              │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625714124Z │                                                                              │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625736013Z │ ╭───────────────────────────────── locals ─────────────────────────────────╮ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625759790Z │ │           archive_dir = PosixPath('/processed')                          │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625781623Z │ │                deskew = True                                             │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625803142Z │ │             input_dir = PosixPath('/input')                              │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625824327Z │ │              loglevel = <LoggingLevelEnum.INFO: 'INFO'>                  │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625847623Z │ │     ocr_json_settings = <_io.TextIOWrapper name='/archive/ocrmypdf.json' │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625868993Z │ │                         mode='r' encoding='UTF-8'>                       │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625890141Z │ │    on_success_archive = True                                             │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625910863Z │ │     on_success_delete = False                                            │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625941697Z │ │            output_dir = PosixPath('/output')                             │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625964900Z │ │ output_dir_year_month = False                                            │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.625985937Z │ │              patterns = '*.pdf,*.PDF'                                    │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626006437Z │ │ poll_new_file_seconds = 1                                                │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626027159Z │ │  retries_loading_file = 5                                                │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626115696Z │ │           use_polling = True                                             │ │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626149844Z │ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ │
2023-10-27T09:28:13.626267232Z │ /usr/lib/python3.10/logging/__init__.py:1452 in setLevel                     │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626289435Z │                                                                              │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626311676Z │   1449 │   │   """                                                           │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626333435Z │   1450 │   │   Set the logging level of this logger.  level must be an int o │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626355379Z │   1451 │   │   """                                                           │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626377546Z │ ❱ 1452 │   │   self.level = _checkLevel(level)                               │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626398675Z │   1453 │   │   self.manager._clear_cache()                                   │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626419805Z │   1454 │                                                                     │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626440990Z │   1455 │   def debug(self, msg, *args, **kwargs):                            │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626462490Z │                                                                              │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626483768Z │ ╭───────────────── locals ──────────────────╮                                │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626505749Z │ │ level = <LoggingLevelEnum.INFO: 'INFO'>   │                                │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626528415Z │ │  self = <Logger ocrmypdf-watcher (DEBUG)> │                                │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626560952Z │ ╰───────────────────────────────────────────╯                                │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626585878Z │                                                                              │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626607119Z │ /usr/lib/python3.10/logging/__init__.py:201 in _checkLevel                   │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626628656Z │                                                                              │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626650026Z │    198 │   │   │   raise ValueError("Unknown level: %r" % level)             │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626671470Z │    199 │   │   rv = _nameToLevel[level]                                      │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626693155Z │    200 │   else:                                                             │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626714155Z │ ❱  201 │   │   raise TypeError("Level not an integer or a valid string: %r"  │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626781710Z │    202 │   │   │   │   │   │   % (level,))                                   │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626812655Z │    203 │   return rv                                                         │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626834580Z │    204                                                                       │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626855914Z │                                                                              │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626877136Z │ ╭──────────────── locals ─────────────────╮                                  │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626898802Z │ │ level = <LoggingLevelEnum.INFO: 'INFO'> │                                  │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626920376Z │ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────╯                                  │

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626944246Z ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626967450Z TypeError: Level not an integer or a valid string: <LoggingLevelEnum.INFO: 

2023-10-27T09:28:13.626988654Z 'INFO'>

What I'm doing wrong?