Support file upload in addition to a file URL

tleyden / open-ocr

Run your own OCR-as-a-Service using Tesseract and Docker

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Support file upload in addition to a file URL #7

Closed tleyden closed 10 years ago

tleyden commented 10 years ago

Feature request from @barrypitman on twitter:

@OpenOCR cool project! How would I go about providing a character whitelist? And it'd be great to be able to upload a file, not just URL
— Barry Pitman (@barrypitman) June 25, 2014

tleyden commented 10 years ago

Agreed this is needed.

As a temporary workaround, here's one easy way to get the file into the cloud:

curl -F file="@result.png" http://filebin.ca/upload.php

where you would replace result.png with your image file.

The response will look something like:

status:1TtpEiq1JfRC
url:http://filebin.ca/1TtpEiq1JfRC/result.png

and the image will be available at the url returned in the url field.

tleyden commented 10 years ago

Status update: the code is on the master branch and working.

Still pending:

[ ] Update REST api docs
[ ] Show simple example

tleyden commented 10 years ago

Brand new REST api docs w/ example: http://docs.openocr.apiary.io/