Google Vision API OCR - Python

base64_encode.py

import base64

with open("yourfile.ext", "rb") as image_file:
    encoded_string = base64.b64encode(image_file.read())

google_ocr.py

import requests

base64_image = ""
base64_image = base64_image.replace("^data:image\/(png|jpg|jpeg);base64,", "")

url = "https://vision.googleapis.com/v1/images:annotate?key=<GOOGLE API ACCESS TOKEN goes here>"

payload = { 
           "requests": [{"image": {"content": base64_image },
            "features": [{"type": "TEXT_DETECTION"}]}]
}
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
  'Content-Type': 'text/plain'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, json = payload)

print(response.text.encode('utf8'))