ocrbot

A Discord bot written in node.js that uses OCR to transcribe text from images

Dependencies:

• discord.js >= 12.5.3
• googleapis >= 74.2.0
• ocr-space-api >=1.0.1
• request >= 2.88.2
• stream >= 0.0.2

Required authentication token files:

• auth.json: Discord bot authentication token
• gdrive.json: Google Drive authentication token
• google.json: Google authentication token
• ocrspace.json: OCR.space Free API key (request here)

Usage:

• Currently it supports two OCR engines: OCR.space and Google
• Post png images to channel
• To use OCR.space engine, react using country flags: :flag_jp: for Japanese, :flag_hk: for Traditional Chinese and :flag_cn: for Simplified Chinese
• To use Google engine, react with :regional_indicator_g:, language will be automatically detected
• Google is better for recognizing obscure fonts, but may take longer since it needs to upload image to Google Drive then export it back as text