Add endpoint for text recognition (OCR) #447
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Fixes #445, uses
pytesseract
.New endpoint:
POST
to/media/<handle>/ocr
Query parameters:
lang
(required) - a tesseract language code (e.g.eng
)format
: the output format (default isstring
)It's
POST
because the task queue is used when available. Although OCR should be pretty fast, this seems more robust and might allow OCR'ing multi-page PDFs in the future (currently, only images are supported).