cloudmersive_ocr_api_client

The powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) APIs let you convert scanned images of pages into recognized text.

This Python package provides a native API client for Cloudmersive OCR

• API version: v1
• Package version: 4.0.1
• Build package: io.swagger.codegen.languages.PythonClientCodegen

Requirements.

Python 2.7 and 3.4+

Installation & Usage

pip install

If the python package is hosted on Github, you can install directly from Github

pip install git+https://github.com/GIT_USER_ID/GIT_REPO_ID.git

(you may need to run pip with root permission: sudo pip install git+https://github.com/GIT_USER_ID/GIT_REPO_ID.git)

Then import the package:

import cloudmersive_ocr_api_client 

Setuptools

Install via Setuptools.

python setup.py install --user

(or sudo python setup.py install to install the package for all users)

Then import the package:

import cloudmersive_ocr_api_client

Getting Started

Please follow the installation procedure and then run the following:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_ocr_api_client
from cloudmersive_ocr_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint

# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_ocr_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'

# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_ocr_api_client.ImageOcrApi(cloudmersive_ocr_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
image_file = '/path/to/file.txt' # file | Image file to perform OCR on.  Common file formats such as PNG, JPEG are supported.
language = 'language_example' # str | Optional, language of the input document, default is English (ENG).  Possible values are ENG (English), ARA (Arabic), ZHO (Chinese - Simplified), ZHO-HANT (Chinese - Traditional), ASM (Assamese), AFR (Afrikaans), AMH (Amharic), AZE (Azerbaijani), AZE-CYRL (Azerbaijani - Cyrillic), BEL (Belarusian), BEN (Bengali), BOD (Tibetan), BOS (Bosnian), BUL (Bulgarian), CAT (Catalan; Valencian), CEB (Cebuano), CES (Czech), CHR (Cherokee), CYM (Welsh), DAN (Danish), DEU (German), DZO (Dzongkha), ELL (Greek), ENM (Archaic/Middle English), EPO (Esperanto), EST (Estonian), EUS (Basque), FAS (Persian), FIN (Finnish), FRA (French), FRK (Frankish), FRM (Middle-French), GLE (Irish), GLG (Galician), GRC (Ancient Greek), HAT (Hatian), HEB (Hebrew), HIN (Hindi), HRV (Croatian), HUN (Hungarian), IKU (Inuktitut), IND (Indonesian), ISL (Icelandic), ITA (Italian), ITA-OLD (Old - Italian), JAV (Javanese), JPN (Japanese), KAN (Kannada), KAT (Georgian), KAT-OLD (Old-Georgian), KAZ (Kazakh), KHM (Central Khmer), KIR (Kirghiz), KOR (Korean), KUR (Kurdish), LAO (Lao), LAT (Latin), LAV (Latvian), LIT (Lithuanian), MAL (Malayalam), MAR (Marathi), MKD (Macedonian), MLT (Maltese), MSA (Malay), MYA (Burmese), NEP (Nepali), NLD (Dutch), NOR (Norwegian), ORI (Oriya), PAN (Panjabi), POL (Polish), POR (Portuguese), PUS (Pushto), RON (Romanian), RUS (Russian), SAN (Sanskrit), SIN (Sinhala), SLK (Slovak), SLV (Slovenian), SPA (Spanish), SPA-OLD (Old Spanish), SQI (Albanian), SRP (Serbian), SRP-LAT (Latin Serbian), SWA (Swahili), SWE (Swedish), SYR (Syriac), TAM (Tamil), TEL (Telugu), TGK (Tajik), TGL (Tagalog), THA (Thai), TIR (Tigrinya), TUR (Turkish), UIG (Uighur), UKR (Ukrainian), URD (Urdu), UZB (Uzbek), UZB-CYR (Cyrillic Uzbek), VIE (Vietnamese), YID (Yiddish) (optional)
preprocessing = 'preprocessing_example' # str | Optional, preprocessing mode, default is 'Auto'.  Possible values are None (no preprocessing of the image), and Auto (automatic image enhancement of the image before OCR is applied; this is recommended). (optional)

try:
    # Convert a scanned image into words with location
    api_response = api_instance.image_ocr_image_lines_with_location(image_file, language=language, preprocessing=preprocessing)
    pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling ImageOcrApi->image_ocr_image_lines_with_location: %s\n" % e)

Documentation for API Endpoints

All URIs are relative to https://api.cloudmersive.com

Class	Method	HTTP request	Description
ImageOcrApi	image_ocr_image_lines_with_location	POST /ocr/image/to/lines-with-location	Convert a scanned image into words with location
ImageOcrApi	image_ocr_image_words_with_location	POST /ocr/image/to/words-with-location	Convert a scanned image into words with location
ImageOcrApi	image_ocr_photo_recognize_business_card	POST /ocr/photo/recognize/business-card	Recognize a photo of a business card, extract key business information
ImageOcrApi	image_ocr_photo_recognize_form	POST /ocr/photo/recognize/form	Recognize a photo of a form, extract key fields and business information
ImageOcrApi	image_ocr_photo_recognize_form_advanced	POST /ocr/photo/recognize/form/advanced	Recognize a photo of a form, extract key fields using stored templates
ImageOcrApi	image_ocr_photo_recognize_receipt	POST /ocr/photo/recognize/receipt	Recognize a photo of a receipt, extract key business information
ImageOcrApi	image_ocr_photo_to_text	POST /ocr/photo/toText	Convert a photo of a document into text
ImageOcrApi	image_ocr_photo_words_with_location	POST /ocr/photo/to/words-with-location	Convert a photo of a document or receipt into words with location
ImageOcrApi	image_ocr_post	POST /ocr/image/toText	Convert a scanned image into text
PdfOcrApi	pdf_ocr_get_async_job_status	GET /ocr/pdf/get-job-status	Returns the result of the Async Job - possible states can be STARTED or COMPLETED
PdfOcrApi	pdf_ocr_pdf_to_lines_with_location	POST /ocr/pdf/to/lines-with-location	Convert a PDF into text lines with location
PdfOcrApi	pdf_ocr_pdf_to_words_with_location	POST /ocr/pdf/to/words-with-location	Convert a PDF into words with location
PdfOcrApi	pdf_ocr_post	POST /ocr/pdf/toText	Converts an uploaded PDF file into text via Optical Character Recognition.
PreprocessingApi	preprocessing_binarize	POST /ocr/preprocessing/image/binarize	Convert an image of text into a binarized (light and dark) view
PreprocessingApi	preprocessing_binarize_advanced	POST /ocr/preprocessing/image/binarize/advanced	Convert an image of text into a binary (light and dark) view with ML
PreprocessingApi	preprocessing_get_page_angle	POST /ocr/preprocessing/image/get-page-angle	Get the angle of the page / document / receipt
PreprocessingApi	preprocessing_unrotate	POST /ocr/preprocessing/image/unrotate	Detect and unrotate a document image
PreprocessingApi	preprocessing_unrotate_advanced	POST /ocr/preprocessing/image/unrotate/advanced	Detect and unrotate a document image (advanced)
PreprocessingApi	preprocessing_unskew	POST /ocr/preprocessing/image/unskew	Detect and unskew a photo of a document
ReceiptsApi	receipts_photo_to_csv	POST /ocr/receipts/photo/to/csv	Convert a photo of a receipt into a CSV file containing structured information from the receipt

Documentation For Models

• BusinessCardRecognitionResult
• FieldResult
• FormDefinitionTemplate
• FormFieldDefinition
• FormRecognitionResult
• FormTableColumnDefinition
• FormTableDefinition
• GetPageAngleResult
• ImageToLinesWithLocationResult
• ImageToTextResponse
• ImageToWordsWithLocationResult
• OcrLineElement
• OcrPageResult
• OcrPageResultWithLinesWithLocation
• OcrPageResultWithWordsWithLocation
• OcrPhotoTextElement
• OcrWordElement
• PdfToLinesWithLocationResult
• PdfToTextResponse
• PdfToWordsWithLocationResult
• PhotoToWordsWithLocationResult
• Point
• ReceiptLineItem
• ReceiptRecognitionResult
• TableCellResult
• TableResult
• TableRowResult

Documentation For Authorization

Apikey

• Type: API key
• API key parameter name: Apikey
• Location: HTTP header

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