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alimranahmed/laraocr
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Laravel Optical Character Reader(OCR) package using different OCR engines like Tesseract

1.2.0(4y ago)17081.9k—0.3%42[2 issues](https://github.com/alimranahmed/LaraOCR/issues)Apache-2.0PHPPHP ^7.0|^8.0

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LaraOCR
-------

[](#laraocr)

Laravel Optical Character Reader(OCR) package using ocr engines like [Tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) under the hood.

Features
--------

[](#features)

1. Read text from image using WebUI/Programing Interface
2. Can be used as Laravel Facade
3. Configurable and extendable

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

OCR Engine Tesseract should be install in the system(e.g. for ubuntu `sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr`). Follow Tesseract installation guide [here](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc#compiling-and-installation). Make sure from the command line you have the `tesseract` command available.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Execute the following command in your terminal while you are in the root directory of your Laravel project to install this package:

```
composer require alimranahmed/laraocr

```

Then, publish this package using `php artisan vendor:publish` command

That's All!

Usages
------

[](#usages)

This package can be used to read text from image to text using different type of interface like Web and Programming.

##### Programming

[](#programming)

From anywhere of your code you can simply access the `OCR` facade to scan image as below:

```
\OCR::scan($imagePath);
```

##### WebUI

[](#webui)

After successful installation of this package we already have a web interface to parse text from image. Simply go to `{project-url}/ocr`, select your image then click the `Parse Image` button.

[![select_image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7629427/33532834-fa434742-d894-11e7-8cce-65afb26a8af0.png)](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7629427/33532834-fa434742-d894-11e7-8cce-65afb26a8af0.png)

**Upload Image**

[![selected_image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7629427/33533003-5487324e-d896-11e7-8b89-eb8fd5aa5e83.png)](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7629427/33533003-5487324e-d896-11e7-8b89-eb8fd5aa5e83.png)

**Uploaded Image**

[![output](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7629427/33533013-63d7b1a6-d896-11e7-8a3b-badd2203ae83.png)](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7629427/33533013-63d7b1a6-d896-11e7-8a3b-badd2203ae83.png)

**Parsed text**

Wish list
---------

[](#wish-list)

- Artisan command to read image and show parsed text from CLI
- Restful API to accept image and return parsed text
- Multilingual support
- Adding More options which are already available in OCR engines

### Contribution

[](#contribution)

**Anyone is always welcome to contribute on the project. If you want to work with:**

1. Just create and issue(even if you want to fix the issue).
2. After fixing any issue or adding any new feature just send a pull request
3. I will be happy to add your code for the betterment of this project. Thanks..

License
-------

[](#license)

This package is licensed under [Apache License, Version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

###  Health Score

44

—

FairBetter than 92% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity50

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community20

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 93.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~555 days

Total

3

Last Release

1710d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP ^7.0

1.2.0PHP ^7.0|^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![alimranahmed](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7629427?v=4)](https://github.com/alimranahmed "alimranahmed (57 commits)")[![Henning256](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1150063?v=4)](https://github.com/Henning256 "Henning256 (2 commits)")[![carlfredrikhero](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1053167?v=4)](https://github.com/carlfredrikhero "carlfredrikhero (1 commits)")[![isbkch](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/216867?v=4)](https://github.com/isbkch "isbkch (1 commits)")

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Tags

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