[okfn-labs] OCR API?

Fri Oct 31 13:05:55 UTC 2014

To pile on to that: I think it's a fantastic idea. During Mozfest last
weekend, Marcos Vanetta (Open News, CC) and I decided that there should be
a standard API for NLP services so that you can write each stage of a
document ETL pipeline in a different language (if need be) and on a
different host.

Here's our README, pulls for more precise ideas on the API would be
amazing: https://github.com/OpenNewsLabs/centipede

Also, worth looking at Apache Stanbol and Harlo Holmes' "Unveillance" (
https://github.com/harlo/UnveillanceCore). Also IBM's UIMA (
https://uima.apache.org/).

Cheers,

- Friedrich

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
wrote:

> Great request Matthew - I think an OCR API (even if just tesseract on a
> server with a wrapper) would be quite cool.
>
> There is this existing idea issue on a PDF to Text service that includes
> some research on OCR:
>
> https://github.com/okfn/ideas/issues/52
>
> Rufus
>
> On 31 October 2014 11:51, Matthew Fullerton <matt.fullerton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi okfn-labs,
>> The need for OCR comes up again and again. I suppose often enough its
>> enough to run the document(s) through the program of choice (I would be
>> interested in what this is right now) and then deal with the consequences.
>> What I want to know is whether there are any do/-it-yourself service/API
>> solutions out there that I could get up and running on a server to use on a
>> permanent basis?
>>
>> If there isn't one yet I will probably be helping to cobble one together.
>> So advice, experience and expressions of interest would also be appreciated.
>>
>> Best,
>> Matt
>>
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