read-me

It's an optical character recognition (ocr) web service. Send it images, it will send you back any text it can find in there.

It uses Tesseract.

Deployment

You can deploy it with Docker

docker build -t docker/read-me .

docker run -p 50000:8080 -d docker/read-me

Alternatively, install Tesseract and its training data (see the Dockerfile), then run it up with:

npm install

node app.js

Tests

Run the test with mocha

Using it

request

Post an image to the service, like this one:

curl -i -F image=@test/testfiles/abbey_road.jpg http://localhost:8080/ocr

response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 28
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 18:50:44 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

  ABBEY
  ROAD NW8