Formula OCR

Stakeholder: Raja Chelladurai, Axis API [Freelance_External]

• Detect and extract text in multiple languages [English, Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, Korean, Japanese].
• Detect and extract mathematical, and chemical formulas.
• Detect if diagram is present in the image.
• Detect if text is handwritten or printed.
• Convert data to latex format.

Steps to follow:

1. Clone the repo into formula_ocr_main directory:

    git clone https://github.com/Trojan0101/formula_ocr.git

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install virtualenv

   virtualenv formula_ocr_env

   source formula_ocr_env/bin/activate

   pip install -r ./requirements.txt

   pip install uwsgi

3. Move modified pooling.py to torch/nn/modules/ pooling.py file:

    mv modified_site_packages/torch/pooling.py formula_ocr_env/<python_version>/site_packages/torch/nn/modules/pooling.py

4. Run:

   nohup uwsgi --http :8080 --module app:app > formula_ocr_main.log 2>&1 &

   disown