winocr

An OCR Tool using Windows.Media.Ocr.OcrEngine API

Command Line Arguments

An OCR Tool using Windows.Media.Ocr.OcrEngine API.

Usage: winocr.exe [OPTIONS] [FILES]...

Arguments:
  [FILES]...  Input files

Options:
  -o, --ocr          OCR and export text files
  -s, --server       Run HTTP Server
  -a, --auth <AUTH>  HTTP Basic Auth (username:password) [default: ]
  -p, --port <PORT>  HTTP port number [default: 8000]
  -h, --help         Print help
  -V, --version      Print version

How to use

Read images and perform OCR, then output the result to text files

winocr -o *.png

Start the OCR HTTP server and specify the HTTP port

winocr -s -p 8080

Start the OCR HTTP server and configure HTTP Basic Auth

winocr -s -a admin:password123 -p 8080

After starting the HTTP server, you can upload an image from the homepage HTML or use curl to send an image via the upload API

curl -u admin:password123 -H "Accept: application/json" -X POST http://localhost:8080/upload -F "file=@01.png"

Installation

Download binary

Goto Download

Install by cargo

cargo install winocr
winocr -h

Features

• Directly call the Windows.Media.Ocr.OcrEngine API for OCR
• Command-line mode: allows batch processing of image files and exports OCR results as TXT files
• HTTP server mode: provides a web interface to upload images and return OCR results
• Supports both HTML form upload and API interfaces
• Configurable HTTP Basic Auth authentication
• The maximum upload image size is 100 MB

Use cases

• Windows users need to perform batch OCR processing
• Applications that need to integrate OCR functionality via API

License

MIT License