This is a Open Source Optical Character Recognition Service

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  The Main Site

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  API doc.

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  How it works

Inspiration

This application receive a http multipart request with a image file, extract text using OCR from Tesseract and returns the result. I know it's not an UNIQUE project but my main goal is to make a fast and less resource intensive OCR web service.

Git Repo

https://github.com/0x30c4/fastocr

What it does

Extract's text using Optical Character Recognition

How I built it

It was built using FastApi and PostGres

Challenges I ran into

The main issue that I ran into was to Recognize the text from an image.

What I learned

I learned about how to use alembic as the DB migration tool and containerize an application.

Built With

• docker
• fastapi
• gunicorn
• make
• nginx
• postgresql
• python