abbyy-ruby
Simple Ruby wrapper for Abbyy Cloud OCR SDK
The initial code was borrowed from https://github.com/madwork/abbyy
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'abbyy-ruby'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install abbyy-ruby
Example
client = Abbyy::Client.new(APPLICATION_ID, PASSWORD)
client.process_business_card "business_card.png", exportFormat: 'xml', imageSource: 'photo'
client.get_task_status
client.getExample with Ruby on Rails
$ touch config/initializers/abbyy.rb
require 'abbyy'
Abbyy.configure do |config|
  config.application_id = APPLICATION_ID
  config.password = PASSWORD
endEverywhere in your rails application, you can access Abbyy without crendentials:
client = Abbyy::Client.new
client.process_image "image.png"Example with Resque
Create new worker ImageScanner:
$ touch app/workers/image_scanner.rb
class ImageScanner
  @queue = :scanner
  def self.perform(attachment_id)
    attachment = Attachment.find_by_id(attachment_id)
    client = Abbyy::Client.new
    client.process_business_card attachment.full_filename, exportFormat: 'xml', imageSource: 'photo'
    while %w(Queued InProgress).include?(client.task[:status])
      sleep(client.task[:estimatedProcessingTime].to_i)
      client.get_task_status
    end
    if client.task[:status] == 'Completed'
      xml_data = REXML::Document.new(client.get)
      ...
    else
      ...
    end
  end
endDevelopment
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/silex-pro/abbyy-ruby/fork )
- Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
- Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
- Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
- Create a new Pull Request