Nextcloud: Install OCR

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The OCR app for Nextcloud 12 comes with a Docker container which has any prerequisites installed. The communication between the Docker container and the host goes over Redis.

Install the OCR app of the Nextcloud app store

The minimum required Nextcloud version is 12, as well as Docker and Redis are mandatory.

After installing the app of the Nextcloud app store, goto the redis folder within the app folder

cd /var/www/nextcloud/apps/ocr/redis

and

Edit redis.conf

port 6380

Install the Docker container with the Redis instance

docker build --build-arg PASSWORD="secretpassword" -t username/redis .

Replace username with your real username.

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Then go to the worker directory within the app folder

cd ../worker

and

Install the Tesseract Docker Container

docker build --build-arg LANGUAGES="tesseract-ocr-deu tesseract-ocr-deu-frak tesseract-ocr-osd tesseract-ocr-equ" -t username/ocr .

Replace username with your real username. Add as many languages as needed to the command line.

Setup a Custom Docker Network

docker network create --driver bridge isolated_ocr

Redis

docker run --name redis --network=isolated_ocr -p 6380:6380 -d username/redis

Replace username with your real username.

OCR

Setup a tempdirectory where the webserver can write temporarely

vi /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php
'tempdirectory' => '/tmp/nextcloudtemp',

Don’t forget to add the path to open_basedir.

Run the Docker container

docker run --name ocr --network=isolated_ocr -e "NODE_ENV=production" -e "REDIS_HOST=redis" -e "REDIS_PORT=6380" -e "REDIS_DB=0" -e "REDIS_PASSWORD=secretpassword" -v /path/to/data/directory/of/nextcloud:/home/node/data:ro -v /path/to/tmp:/home/node/output -d username/ocr

Adjust the secretpassword (which you have created before), /path/to/data/directory/of/nextcloud, /path/to/tmp, username.

Configure the OCR App

Start OCR

Go to the files section, select OCR of a file

Choose OCR language

and select Process.

See also