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app.py

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+from fastapi import FastAPI, File, UploadFile
+from PIL import Image
+import easyocr
+import io
+import logging
+
+# Configure logging
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+app = FastAPI()
+
+# Load the EasyOCR model once when the application starts
+# This makes subsequent requests much faster
+logger.info("Loading EasyOCR model...")
+reader = easyocr.Reader(['en'], gpu=False)
+logger.info("EasyOCR model loaded successfully.")
+
+@app.get("/")
+def read_root():
+    return {"status": "OCR API is running"}
+
+@app.post("/ocr-from-image/")
+async def ocr_from_image(file: UploadFile = File(...)):
+    try:
+        # Read the image file from the request
+        image_bytes = await file.read()
+        
+        # Use EasyOCR to read text from the image bytes
+        logger.info("Processing image with EasyOCR...")
+        result = reader.readtext(image_bytes, detail=0, paragraph=True)
+        
+        # Combine the detected text lines into a single string
+        extracted_text = " ".join(result)
+        logger.info(f"Extracted Text: {extracted_text}")
+        
+        return {"extracted_text": extracted_text}
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.error(f"An error occurred: {e}")
+        return {"error": str(e)}

requirements.txt

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+fastapi
+uvicorn
+python-multipart
+Pillow
+easyocr
+torch --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+torchvision --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu