README.md

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

Scan results

Setup

Install requirements

UNIX

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Windows

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup Tesseract path

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

# Example: r'D:\TesseractOCR\tesseract'
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'<path_to_tesseract_exe>'

Start Flask webserver

UNIX

python3 main.py

Windows

python main.py

PS: The webserver will start on the port 5000