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Tesseract OCR on AWS Lambda with Python

References:

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Compiling

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33588262/tesseract-ocr-on-aws-lambda-via-virtualenv

https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr

Instructions for running Tesseract OCR on AWS Lambda with Python

  1. Launch an Amazon Linux AMI instance

  2. Connect to the instance and generate an AWS Lambda Package

# system libs
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y upgrade
sudo yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"

# tesseract / leptonica / pillow dependencies
sudo yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ make autoconf aclocal automake libtool \
                    libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel zlib-devel \
                    libzip-devel freetype-devel lcms2-devel libwebp-devel \
                    tcl-devel tk-devel

# install leptonica
cd ~
mkdir leptonica
cd leptonica
wget http://www.leptonica.org/source/leptonica-1.74.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf leptonica-*.tar.gz
cd leptonica-*
./configure
make
sudo make install

# install tesseract
cd ~
git clone --branch 4.00.00alpha https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git
cd tesseract
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-debug
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" make
sudo make install

# create a python virtual env
virtualenv ~/tfenv
source ~/tfenv/bin/activate

# Install pillow
pip install pillow

# Install cython
pip install cython

# Install tesserocr
pip install tesserocr

# prepare the zip package
cd ~
mkdir lambda-tesseract
cd lambda-tesseract
cp /usr/local/bin/tesseract .
mkdir lib
cp /usr/local/lib/libtesseract.so.4 lib/
cp /usr/local/lib/liblept.so.5 lib/
cp /lib64/librt.so.1 lib/
cp /lib64/libz.so.1 lib/
cp /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0 lib/
cp /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 lib/
cp /usr/lib64/libtiff.so.5 lib/
cp /lib64/libpthread.so.0 lib/
cp /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 lib/
cp /lib64/libm.so.6 lib/
cp /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 lib/
cp /lib64/libc.so.6 lib/
cp /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 lib/
cp /usr/lib64/libjbig.so.2.0 lib/
cp -r ~/tesseract/tessdata/ tessdata
cp -r ~/tfenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/* .
cp -r ~/tfenv/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/* .

mkdir tessdata
wget https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/master/eng.traineddata -O tessdata/eng.traineddata

# Create lambda_function.py file (see example below)
# lambda_function.py
import tesserocr
import PIL.Image
import io
from base64 import b64decode

def lambda_handler(event, context):
  binary = b64decode(event['image64'])
  image = PIL.Image.open(io.BytesIO(binary))
  text = tesserocr.image_to_text(image)
  return {'text' : text}
# zip the package
cd ~
zip -r lambda-tesseract.zip lambda-tesseract --exclude *.pyc
  1. You may then copy the zip package to your computer and upload it to S3
scp -i key.pem ec2-user@AWS_EC2_INSTANCE_IP:~/lambda-tesseract.zip .
  1. Use the zip url in S3 to configure AWS Lambda.

  2. Create an environment variable with key "TESSDATA_PREFIX" and leave the value empty.

  3. You can test the function with a test.json file like this:

{
"image64": 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}

It should print 1234567890.

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Hey I was very tempted to try this one out but opted for this EC2 + Docker that generates zip files using shell scripts to compile the libraries and dependencies, over here. It's very straightforward and reproducible.

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kollols commented Aug 19, 2020

I am getting the below error while using seths solution :

START RequestId: 81a1f718-71a3-4597-8cf4-ea74a3304f02 Version: $LATEST
[Errno 13] Permission denied: OSError
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/task/lambda_function.py", line 16, in lambda_handler
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(image)
File "/var/task/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 122, in image_to_string
config=config)
File "/var/task/pytesseract/pytesseract.py", line 46, in run_tesseract
proc = subprocess.Popen(command, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 394, in init
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1047, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

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