OCR Reader with Tesseract.JS

This project demonstrates how to read any image and generate the contents of the image such as texts.

Getting Started

To get you started you can simply clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Rajdeepc/javascript-ocr-reader.git

Prerequisites

You need git to clone the repository. You can get git from
http://git-scm.com/.

A number of node.js tools is necessary to initialize and test the project. You must have node.js and its package manager (npm) installed. You can get them from http://nodejs.org/. The tools/modules used in this project are listed in package.json and include express, mongodb and mongoose.

Download express,mongodb and mongoose from the below sites:

• Tesseract https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js
• multer https://github.com/expressjs/multer

Installing

and install the dependencies

npm install

Run in Local

To Run Locally Steps to follow:

• Run Front End

  npm start

Built With

• tesseract.js
• multer
• ejs
• express

Contributing

Create a branch

1. git checkout master from any folder in your local https://github.com/Rajdeepc/javascript-ocr-reader.git repository
2. git pull origin master to ensure you have the latest main code
3. git checkout -b the-name-of-my-branch (replacing the-name-of-my-branch with a suitable name) to create a branch

Make the change

1. Follow the “Running locally” instructions
2. Save the files and check in the browser
   1. Changes to React components in src will hot-reload
   2. Changes to markdown files in content will hot-reload
   3. If working with plugins, you may need to remove the .cache directory and restart the server

Push it

1. git add -A && git commit -m "My message" (replacing My message with a commit message, such as Fixed header logo) to stage and commit your changes
2. git push my-fork-name the-name-of-my-branch
3. Go to the javascript-ocr-reader and you should see recently pushed branches.
4. Follow GitHub’s instructions.
5. If possible, include screenshots of visual changes. A Netlify build will also be automatically created once you make your PR so other people can see your change.

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Made for developers and designers by Rajdeep Chandra. Tip me on Patreon.