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serverless-tesseract
Advanced tools
A Serverless plugin to easily add Tesseract OCR engine to your deployment. Builds tesseract for you in a docker container.
npm install --save serverless-tesseract
Add the plugin to your serverless.yml
file and configure:
plugins:
- serverless-tesseract
custom:
# This section is optional, as well as all of its keys.
# Defaults are shown in the example.
tesseract:
version: 4.0.0
leptonica_version: 1.76.0
tessdata: "osd eng" # Add any other languages rus, deu, ...
tessdata_url: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/
# Other obvious choices are:
# https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_fast/raw/master/
# https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best/raw/master/
# The fast ones are used by Ubuntu and Debian by default
Then run sls deploy
or sls package
as usual.
This plugins adds tesseract-standalone
directory to your build with its executable, libs and tessdata and convenience script tesseract
to the root of your project. You may call it directly or add it to path:
LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT = os.environ.get('LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT', os.path.dirname(__file__))
os.environ["PATH"] = LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT + os.pathsep + os.environ['PATH']
This plugin defines commands to manufacture and clean artifacts without packaging them:
sls tesseract create
sls tesseract clean
FAQs
Serverless Tesseract plugin
The npm package serverless-tesseract receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, serverless-tesseract popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that serverless-tesseract demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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