exec not returns output.

[ShivaGupta]

<?php

$card_image="test.jpg";

$cmd="curl -F userfile=$card_image \ 

  -F outputencoding=\"utf-8\" \

  -F outputformat=\"txt\" \ 

  http://example.com/cgi-bin/weocr/ocr_scene.cgi >result.txt";


exec($cmd, $result);

echo $result[0];

?>

 

[kicken]

You're redirecting your output to result.txt. There's no output for exec() to capture and return as a result of that.

 

$result = file_get_contents('result.txt');

to get your output, or stop redirecting it at all.