ocr-electron-vue

A Simple OCR Application built on Electron, Vue.js & Tesseract.js

Original idea from blog article: Creating a Simple OCR App with Electron, Vue.js & Tesseract.js

Nowadays JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages, and used for a lot of fields and platforms through Web. In this tutorial we're going to learn how to build an OCR desktop application with JavaScript using Electron and Tesseract.js ... and guess what... our FE will be implemented with Vue.js

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Build Setup

# clone repository
git clone https://github.com/lexmartinez/ocr-electron-vue.git

# open project folder
cd ocr-electron-vue

# install dependencies
npm install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:9080
npm run dev

# build electron application for production
npm run build

# lint all JS/Vue component files in `src/`
npm run lint

Production Notes

• The OCR engine needs a set of trained data to process the images, in order to execute this app from bundled app/dmg file you should copy the eng.traineddata to root folder of you computer.

• The current release supports only image files.

License

This project is licensed under MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

The project bundling is powered by electron-vue@7c4e3e9 using vue-cli. Documentation about the original structure can be found here.