@app.route('/services/1/ocr', methods=['POST'])
def extract_text_from_image():
#Check for the presence of the image
if 'image' not in request.files:
return jsonify(JSON_NOIMAGE)
if 'image_id' not in request.form:
return jsonify(JSON_NOIMAGEID)
#extract the image
file = request.files['image']
try:
image = Image.open(file)
except Exception, e:
if MASK_ERRORS:
return jsonify(JSON_NONEIMAGE)
raise e
image_id= request.form['image_id']
tesseract = Tesseract(image_id, TESSERACT_EXE, TESSERACT_SCRATCH, TESSERACT_CLEANUP)
try:
text = tesseract.image_to_string(image).encode('utf-8')
except Exception, e:
if MASK_ERRORS:
return jsonify(JSON_OCRFAILED)
raise e;
return jsonify(JSON_SUCCESS, text=text)
