OCR App Using React, Express & Tesseract

A simple OCR (optical character recognition) application using React, Express & Tesseract. Supported packages: Semantic UI React & React Webcam. It can be used to recognize characters from uploaded image or captured photo.

Demo:

Click the following picture to see the demo video:

Try this project:
1. Clone this repo
```
$ git clone https://github.com/LintangWisesa/OCR_React_Express_Tesseract
```
2. Setup Node.js server
  
  Install packages & run the server
```
$ cd OCR_React_Express_Tesseract
$ cd nodejs_ocr
$ npm i
$ node app
```
  It will run at localhost:5000. If you have nodemon or pm2, you can also use them to run this server.
```
$ nodemon app
```
  or
```
$ pm2 start app.js
```
3. Setup React app
  
  Install packages & run the app:
```
$ cd OCR_React_Express_Tesseract
$ cd react_ocr_webcam
$ npm i
$ npm start
```
  It will run at localhost:3000. Try to upload an image or capture a photo by webcam to see the result.