Text from image (OCR) @ocr_text_bot

A simple bot to extract text from images.

Usage

What do I need?

• A AWS key configured locally, see here.
• NodeJS. I tested with v8.9.0.
• A Telegram account.

Installing

# Install the Serverless Framework
$ npm install serverless -g

# Install the necessary plugins
$ npm install

# Get a bot from Telegram, sending this message to @BotFather
$ /newbot

# Put the token received into a file called serverless.env.yml, like this
$ cat serverless.env.yml
TELEGRAM_TOKEN: <your_token>

# Deploy it!
$ serverless deploy

# With the URL returned in the output, configure the Webhook
$ curl -X POST https://<your_url>.amazonaws.com/dev/set_webhook

Now, just start a conversation with the bot :)

Acknowledgement

• Serveless aws-python-telegram-bot example
• python-telegram-bot
• pytesseract
• Tesseract