OCR

OCR web services gateway for Ruby.

Description

Recognize text and characters from image files using web services.

Web services supported

• OCR Web Service(Online OCR)
  • identify: Username and license code as password
  • languages: :brazilian, :byelorussian, :bulgarian, :catalan, :croatian, :czech, :danish, :dutch, :english, :estonian, :finnish, :french, :german, :greek, :hungarian, :indonesian, :italian, :latin, :latvian, :lithuanian, :moldavian, :polish, :portuguese, :romanian, :russian, :serbian, :slovakian, :slovenian, :spanish, :swedish, :turkish, :ukrainian
  • output formats: :doc, :pdf, :excel, :html, :txt, :rtf

Installation

From the command line

  gem install ocr

Using Gemfile

1 Add to your application Gemfile

gem 'ocr'

2 Type

  bundle install

Using

OCR Web Service

OCR Web Service

  ocr = OCR.use :onlineocr

  ocr.login <YOUR_USER>, <LICENSE_CODE>
  ocr.file= 'pkg/text_test2.jpg'
  ocr.recognize

  puts "ERROR: #{ocr.error}" if ocr.error?
  puts "RESULT: #{ocr.text}" unless ocr.error?

License

Released under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT