FastAPI OCR

A FastAPI-based OCR API that accepts image uploads and extracts text using Tesseract OCR and PyTesseract.

Tech Stack

• Python
• FastAPI
• Tesseract OCR
• PyTesseract
• Uvicorn
• REST API
• Swagger UI

Workflow

            Image Upload
                 │
                 ▼
             FastAPI
                 │
                 ▼
              /ocr
                 │
                 ▼
         UploadFile
                 │
                 ▼
      Save Uploaded Image
                 │
                 ▼
         PyTesseract
                 │
                 ▼
         Tesseract OCR
                 │
                 ▼
        Extracted Text
                 │
                 ▼
          API Response

When user uploads an image

                User
                  │
                  ▼
           Image Upload
                  │
                  ▼
           FastAPI /ocr
                  │
                  ▼
          UploadFile
                  │
                  ▼
      Save uploadedImage.jpg
                  │
                  ▼
          PyTesseract
                  │
                  ▼
         Tesseract OCR
                  │
                  ▼
         Extracted Text
                  │
                  ▼
              User

Run an Application

uvicorn main:app --reload