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 = 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