lopes_andre Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 Hi, I need to use a OCR class in PHP. What class should I use. Does any one know any good class to do this kind of task? Sorry my english. Best Regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 Why PHP for OCR? It's not the best suited language for this task IMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopes_andre Posted July 19, 2010 Author Share Posted July 19, 2010 What technology should I use to extract text from images online? The website is in PHP. It is not a good idea to do this in PHP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 OCR is a very computation expensive process involving relatively complex mathematical operations. PHP, being loosely typed, interpreted language is not really fast in such operations when compared to compiled or precompiled languages like C/C++ or Java. I think you should look for an OCR application, that can be run on your server from command line. This way you can use PHP's exec command to pass requests from your web application to OCR application and present results back to browser client. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jd307 Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 I would have to agree with Mchl here. OCR can be very resource expensive, however there is some free software called SimpleOCR (http://www.simpleocr.com/) that can do the job that you want and even offers a SDK for customisation into your own application... though this may not be needed as the basic program offers a command line. I have never used this software myself so I do not know how good it is... but if you are able to install it on your server it may serve your purpose. Acutally, I think this app only works for Windows... so if you have a Linux server you may have to find another solution... I think Clara OCR *may* do the job too... which is a Linux app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kudryavcef Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 (edited) What technology should I use to extract text from images online? The website is in PHP. It is not a good idea to do this in PHP? You could try to use a cloud service through web api. It lets you upload an image and send you back an OCR’ed data. This service works with PHP, Java, C#, Python and others. On the website http://ocrsdk.com/pr...ming-languages/ you can find Quick Start Guides and Code Samples for PHP. Edited November 30, 2012 by kudryavcef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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