/** * @author n1474335 [n1474335@gmail.com] * @author mshwed [m@ttshwed.com] * @author Matt C [me@mitt.dev] * @copyright Crown Copyright 2019 * @license Apache-2.0 */ import Operation from "../Operation.mjs"; import OperationError from "../errors/OperationError.mjs"; import { isImage } from "../lib/FileType.mjs"; import { toBase64 } from "../lib/Base64.mjs"; import { isWorkerEnvironment } from "../Utils.mjs"; import process from "process"; import { createWorker } from "tesseract.js"; /** * Optical Character Recognition operation */ class OpticalCharacterRecognition extends Operation { /** * OpticalCharacterRecognition constructor */ constructor() { super(); this.name = "Optical Character Recognition"; this.module = "OCR"; this.description = "Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text.

Supported image formats: png, jpg, bmp, pbm."; this.infoURL = "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition"; this.inputType = "ArrayBuffer"; this.outputType = "string"; this.args = [ { name: "Show confidence", type: "boolean", value: true } ]; } /** * @param {ArrayBuffer} input * @param {Object[]} args * @returns {string} */ async run(input, args) { const [showConfidence] = args; if (!isWorkerEnvironment()) throw new OperationError("This operation only works in a browser"); const type = isImage(input); if (!type) { throw new OperationError("Unsupported file type (supported: jpg,png,pbm,bmp) or no file provided"); } const assetDir = isWorkerEnvironment() ? `${self.docURL}/assets/` : `${process.cwd()}/src/core/vendor/`; try { self.sendStatusMessage("Spinning up Tesseract worker..."); const image = `data:${type};base64,${toBase64(input)}`; const worker = createWorker({ workerPath: `${assetDir}tesseract/worker.min.js`, langPath: `${assetDir}tesseract/lang-data`, corePath: `${assetDir}tesseract/tesseract-core.wasm.js`, logger: progress => { if (isWorkerEnvironment()) { self.sendStatusMessage(`Status: ${progress.status}${progress.status === "recognizing text" ? ` - ${(parseFloat(progress.progress)*100).toFixed(2)}%`: "" }`); } } }); await worker.load(); self.sendStatusMessage(`Loading English language pack...`); await worker.loadLanguage("eng"); self.sendStatusMessage("Intialising Tesseract API..."); await worker.initialize("eng"); self.sendStatusMessage("Finding text..."); const result = await worker.recognize(image); if (showConfidence) { return `Confidence: ${result.data.confidence}%\n\n${result.data.text}`; } else { return result.data.text; } } catch (err) { throw new OperationError(`Error performing OCR on image. (${err})`); } } } export default OpticalCharacterRecognition;