https://github.com/lucadibello/imagereader

Using Flask and Tesseract this website is able to read all the text written in an image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
https://github.com/lucadibello/imagereader

flask jinja2-templates ocr ocr-recognition python3 tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-api

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Using Flask and Tesseract this website is able to read all the text written in an image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lucadibello/imagereader
• Owner: lucadibello
• Created: 2019-07-25T08:42:05.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-05-01T21:14:43.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-02T00:01:49.443Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: flask, jinja2-templates, ocr, ocr-recognition, python3, tesseract-ocr, tesseract-ocr-api
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.15 MB
• Stars: 21
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
# ImageReader

This website is able to read all the text written in an image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

It uses Flask (back-end) and as front-end framework Material Design Bootstrap (jQuery edition).

## Homepage

![Home page](static/img/readme/home.PNG)

## Scan results

![Scan result](static/img/readme/result.PNG)

# Setup

## Install requirements

### UNIX

```bash

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

```

### Windows

```bash

pip install -r requirements.txt

```

## Setup Tesseract path

Insert Tesseract file path in main.py (line 54):

```python

# Example: r'D:\TesseractOCR\tesseract'

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r''

```

# Start Flask webserver

## UNIX

```'bash

python3 main.py

```

## Windows

```bash

python main.py

```

PS: The webserver will start on the port 5000