Pytesseract Rest Api

pytesseract-rest-api.py

import json

from flask import Flask, request
from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
import pytesseract



app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/ocr', methods=['POST'])
def run_ocr():
	f = request.files['file']
	file_name = 'tmp/' + secure_filename(f.filename)
	f.save(file_name)

	content = pytesseract.image_to_string(file_name, timeout=10)
	return json.dumps({"content": content})


def handler(event, context):
	print(event)
	return {
		"statusCode": 200,
		"body": json.dumps(event),
	}

if __name__ == '__main__':
	app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=5005, debug=True)