ubaada / google-ocr-json-text-reader

Reads simple page text from JSON book files generated from Google's OCR API and converts it into a readable HTML.

Google-OCR-Json-Text-Reader

Reads simple page text from JSON book files generated from Google's OCR API and converts it into a readable HTML.

1. Use Google Cloud OCR to convert scanned documents to text

# Command to perform OCR on my-book.pdf uploaded in gcloud-storage and generate json files
gcloud ml vision detect-text-pdf gs://xyz/in-pdf/my-book.pdf gs://abc/output-directory/

2. Download json files for processing by the python script

gsutil -m cp -r "gs://ktbook/jw-book-out" .

3. Extract the scanned json data to HTML using gcloud-ocr-to-html.py .

Google OCR Json Structure

- JSON
  - responses
    - fullTextAnnotation
      - pages
        - blocks
          - paragraphs 
            - word 
              - symbols 
                - text

Direct whole page text

- JSON
  - responses
    - fullTextAnnotation
      * text