SMOCR

NPM Interface to the SMOCR cloud OCR engine.

Reduce your OCR Backend setup time from weeks to minutes.

We currently support the following image formats: JPEG, PNG, TIFF (more to be added soon)

Pick one of our 3 OCR engines: Tesseract, SMOCR, Hybrid.

SETUP

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Get an API key from https://smocr.com

Install node module npm install smocr

You're good to go!

CONFIGURE

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Require Module: smocr = require('smocr');

Configure Module: smocr.key("YOUR_KEY");

RUN

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Get string from image:

This call returns a string containing all the recognized text.

options = {
    //local or http(s) path to image
    image: '/local/or/internet/path/to/image',
    //'tess' or 'smocr' or 'hybrid'
    engine: 'tess' 			
};
smocr.string(options, function(err, res){
    if(err){
        console.log(err);
        return;
    }
    if(res){
        //do something with res
    }
})

Get wordboxes from image:

This call returns an array of wordboxes. Each wordbox contains:

• text: the text read from inside the box
• conf: the confidence of the read value
• box: {top, left, width, height} - coordinates of the wordbox

options = {
    //local or http(s) path to image
    image: '/local/or/internet/path/to/image',
    //'tess' or 'smocr' or 'hybrid'
    engine: 'tess' 			
};
smocr.boxes(options, function(err, res){
    if(err){
        console.log(err);
        return;
    }
    if(res){
        //do something with res
    }
})

Check your quota:

smocr.quota(function(err, res){
    if(err){
        console.log(err);
        return;
    }
    if(res){
        //do something with res
    }
})