kbai/ocr-models repository overview

⁠ocr-models

A registry of models for OCR engines

⁠Setup

Unless you intend to develop your own version of the model registry, you won't need to actually clone this repo.

⁠Initialize the submodules

Unless you did a recursive clone (git clone --recursive https://github.com/kba/ocr-models):

git submodule init
git submodule update

⁠Validate the metadata

make validate

This will apply the JSON schema for the metadata⁠ to the DESCRIPTION JSON file of all models.

⁠Build the ZIP archives

make zip

⁠Build the database

make db

⁠Development server

Install node modules:

npm install

To get a development server up, run npm start-dev.

Server will be available on http://localhost:3002⁠.

⁠Production server

⁠Run the docker image

docker run --rm -it -p 3002:3002 kbai/ocr-models

⁠Proxy through Apache

Enable the proxy_http apache module. In Debian:

a2enmod http_proxy

Add a location directive to an enabled site, such as /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:

<Location /ocr-models/>
    ProxyPass http://localhost:3002/ retry=0
    ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:3002/
</Location>

Restart apache

service apache2 restart
# or, if using systemd
systemctl restart apache2.service