from flask import Flask, request, jsonify import os import tempfile import fitz # PyMuPDF from paddleocr import PaddleOCR from PIL import Image app = Flask(__name__) # Initialize PaddleOCR once (for English) ocr = PaddleOCR(lang='en') @app.route('/') def index(): return jsonify({"message": "Welcome to the PaddleOCR + PyMuPDF PDF Extractor API!"}) @app.route('/extract', methods=['POST']) def extract_text(): if 'pdf' not in request.files: return jsonify({"error": "No PDF file uploaded"}), 400 pdf_file = request.files['pdf'] # Save PDF temporarily temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp() pdf_path = os.path.join(temp_dir, pdf_file.filename) pdf_file.save(pdf_path) doc = fitz.open(pdf_path) extracted_data = [] for page_number, page in enumerate(doc, start=1): # Convert PDF page to image pix = page.get_pixmap(dpi=200) img_path = os.path.join(temp_dir, f"page_{page_number}.png") pix.save(img_path) # Perform OCR result = ocr.ocr(img_path, cls=True) page_text = "" for line in result: for word_info in line: text = word_info[1][0] page_text += text + " " extracted_data.append({ "page": page_number, "text": page_text.strip() }) return jsonify({ "status": "success", "pages": extracted_data }) if __name__ == '__main__': app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=7860)