If you do not know, EasyOCR is an open-sourced project (written in Python, hosted at https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR) helps doing OCR Jobs for your text extraction needs. Because it's written in Python, it can be difficult for integrating to your stack.

This small repository helps wrapping the EasyOCR functionalities inside Restful API with Flask. So that, you do not need to use Python in your stack to work with EasyOCR.

The fastest way to run is using provided image at https://hub.docker.com/r/voduytuan/restful-easyocr (or docker pull voduytuan/restful-easyocr).

$ > docker run -d -i --name myeasyocr -p 2000:2000 -e SECRET_KEY=easyocr_vdt voduytuan/restful-easyocr

After starting container, please wait few seconds (about 30s) so that the detection model loaded. By default, this container will be accessed by port 2000.

• Method: POST

• URL: http://{server-ip}:2000/ocr

• Header:

  • Content-Type: application/json

• Request Body:

  • JSON Object with format:

    • image_url - (String) : URL Of image will be processed
    • secret_key - (String): Secret Key of server. If you're using my public image from hub.docker.com, the secret key will be "easyocr_vdt". Change this key by set the value of environment variable SECRET_KEY in docker run... command.

  • Example of a payload:

    {
    	"secret_key": "easyocr_vdt",
    	"image_url": "https://via.placeholder.com/300.jpg?text=Hello_world"
    }
    

    (Placeholder Image above has resolution 300x300px)

• Status Code: 200 (Success) or 401 if incorrect secret_key.

• Format: JSON

  • results (Array of Object): List of detected texts and rectangle boundary of that text on the source image. Each result object will have format:

    • coordinate (Array of Point): Contains 4 points to create rectangle contains the text. Each point is an two value array of float.
    • score (Float): The score of the easyocr when detect. From 0 (zero) to 1.
    • text (String): Detected text

  • An Example of response data:

    {
      "results": [
        {
          "coordinate": [
            [
              86.0,
              138.0
            ],
            [
              212.0,
              138.0
            ],
            [
              212.0,
              170.0
            ],
            [
              86.0,
              170.0
            ]
          ],
          "score": 0.24089430272579193,
          "text": "Hello world"
        }
      ]
    }

By default, provided image is only detect ENGLISH text on input photo. If you want to change the language to detect, you can clone my repository (https://github.com/voduytuan/Restful-EasyOCR), then edit file recognition.py (in line number 9), you can change the array of detected languages by replacing the ['en'] array with your language array, such as ['vi', 'en'] (EasyOCR supports detect multiple language)

To know all the supported languages, you can view the repository EasyOCR (https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR) or access URL https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/tree/master/easyocr/character to see full list, remove the suffix "_char.txt" from file names, you will have the name of language to set to your array. Such as: vi_char.txt becomes vi...

$ git clone https://github.com/voduytuan/Restful-EasyOCR
$ cd Restful-EasyOCR/

(Now, you can edit file recognition.py with your needs)
$ vi recognition.py

(save file and start building your image)
$ sudo docker build -t myrestful_easyocr -f Dockerfile .

$ sudo docker run -d -i --name myeasyocr -e SECRET_KEY=easyocr_vdt -p 2000:2000 myrestful_easyocr