ArcorOCR.com | Backend

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Here lives the backend for ArcorOCR.

It's Python,

uses OCRmyPDF,

and runs with Gunicorn.

There are two endpoints:

• /upload (perform OCR generation of the supplied file in POST)
• /upload/remove (perform OCR removal of the supplied file in POST)

Enjoy.

Running

Production

1. Pull and CD

git clone https://github.com/sam-morin/ArcorOCR-backend-python.git && cd ArcorOCR-backend

2. Build image

docker build . -t arcorocr-backend

3. Run image

docker run -d --restart unless-stopped -p PUBLIC_PORT:5000 arcorocr-backend

Development

1. Pull and CD

git clone https://github.com/sam-morin/ArcorOCR-backend-python.git && cd ArcorOCR-backend

2. Install requirements.txt

pip install requirements.txt

3. Run it with Flask

python server.py

or, better yet..

3. Run it with Gunicorn

gunicorn -w 4 -b 0.0.0.0:5000 server:app --timeout 300