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https://github.com/ttv20/gDriveOCR

OCR by Google Drive API
https://github.com/ttv20/gDriveOCR

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OCR by Google Drive API

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# gDriveOCR
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Node CLI program for OCR large PDF documents

## Purpose
Let you OCR (extract text from image) from PDF by Google Drive API

## Table of Contents

1. [Installation](#installation)
2. [How to get credentials file](#how-to-get-credentials-file)
3. [Usage](#usage)
5. [TODO](#todo)

### installation
```bash
# npm install -g gdriveocr
```

### How to get credentials file
to use this program you need to enable the Drive API on your Google account:
* Go to [Google Drive API](https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/quickstart/nodejs)
* Click on 'ENABLE THE DRIVE API'
* Download the cert file by clicking on 'DOWNLOAD CLIENT CONFIGURATION'

### Usage
```
Usage: gdriveocr [options]

OCR by Google Drive API

Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-l, --lang 2 digit language language hint for the OCR (if not specifid Google recognized alone)
-c, --cert Google API cert file path (default: "./credentials.json")
-h, --help output usage information
```

### TODO
* support multiple files and images
* better error handling
* API