README

The Laravel OCR package provides optimal character recognition capabilities in Laravel applications. It integrates with Tesseract OCR and offers features such as offline OCR, language selection, and more.

Table of Contents

• Package Dependencies
• Installation
  • Software Installation
  • package Installation
• Usage
  • Routes and Controllers
  • Available Languages
  • User Words
• Current and Upcoming Features
• Contributing
• License

Package Dependencies

This package depends on Tesseract OCR. Before using the Laravel OCR package, you must install Tesseract OCR on your server. You can find installation instructions for various operating systems on the Tesseract OCR Page https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.

Installation

Software Installation

For Windows users, we provide installation guidance in the screenshot. Please clich the https://github.com/tesseract-ocr to install Tesseract OCR on your Windows machine.

For general users and not windows specifically, you can visit https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Installation.html

Package Installation

To install the Laravel OCR package, you can use Composer:

composer require hossamsoliuman/laravel-ocr

Usage

Routes and Controllers

Routes

This package provides routes and controllers for OCR processing. You can access the OCR functionality via the following routes:

• POST /api/offline-ocr/image: Perform offline OCR on an image.

  • Accepts image (image file) and lang (language selection) parameters.
  • Optional user_words parameter for user-specific words (see User Words).

• GET /languages: Retrieve a list of available languages for OCR.

Make sure to include these routes in your Laravel application as needed. You can also customize the routes and controllers to fit your application's requirements.

Available Languages

You can select the language(s) for OCR processing using the lang parameter when making requests. By default, English (eng) is used. You can specify multiple languages as a comma-separated list, e.g., eng,ara.

To retrieve a list of available languages, you can access the /languages route.

User Words

You can provide a user-specific words file to improve OCR accuracy when dealing with technical terminology or jargon. To use user words, include the user_words parameter when making OCR requests, and provide a text file containing the desired words.

Example usage:

curl -X POST -F "image=@image.png" -F "user_words=@user-words.txt" http://your-app.com/offline-ocr/image

Current and Upcoming Features

Here's a table detailing the current and upcoming features of the Laravel OCR package:

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! We appreciate your interest in improving this package. To get started with contributing, please read our contribution guidelines. Your contributions can help make this package even better.

License

This package is open-source software licensed under the MIT License. You are free to use, modify, and distribute this software in accordance with the terms of the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.