# webservice.py wrapper for OCRmyPDF
# Copyright (C) 2019 James R. Barlow: github.com/jbarlow83
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see .
"""This is a simple web service/HTTP wrapper for OCRmyPDF
This may be more convenient than the command line tool for some Docker users.
Note that OCRmyPDF uses Ghostscript, which is licensed under AGPLv3+. While
OCRmyPDF is under GPLv3, this file is distributed under the Affero GPLv3+ license,
to emphasize that SaaS deployments should make sure they comply with
Ghostscript's license as well as OCRmyPDF's.
"""
from flask import (
Flask,
Response,
flash,
request,
redirect,
url_for,
abort,
send_from_directory,
)
from subprocess import run, PIPE
from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
import os
import shlex
app = Flask(__name__)
app.secret_key = "secret"
app.config['MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH'] = 50_000_000
app.config.from_envvar("OCRMYPDF_WEBSERVICE_SETTINGS", silent=True)
ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS = set(["pdf"])
def allowed_file(filename):
return "." in filename and filename.rsplit(".", 1)[1].lower() in ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS
def do_ocrmypdf(file):
uploaddir = TemporaryDirectory(prefix="ocrmypdf-upload")
downloaddir = TemporaryDirectory(prefix="ocrmypdf-download")
filename = secure_filename(file.filename)
up_file = os.path.join(uploaddir.name, filename)
file.save(up_file)
down_file = os.path.join(downloaddir.name, filename)
cmd_args = [arg for arg in shlex.split(request.form["params"])]
if "--sidecar" in cmd_args:
return Response("--sidecar not supported", 501, mimetype='text/plain')
ocrmypdf_args = ["ocrmypdf", *cmd_args, up_file, down_file]
proc = run(ocrmypdf_args, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, encoding="utf-8")
if proc.returncode != 0:
stderr = proc.stderr
return Response(stderr, 400, mimetype='text/plain')
return send_from_directory(downloaddir.name, filename)
@app.route("/", methods=["GET", "POST"])
def upload_file():
if request.method == "POST":
if "file" not in request.files:
return Response("No file in POST", 400, mimetype='text/plain')
file = request.files["file"]
if file.filename == "":
return Response("Empty filename", 400, mimetype='text/plain')
if not allowed_file(file.filename):
return Response("Invalid filename", 400, mimetype='text/plain')
if file and allowed_file(file.filename):
return do_ocrmypdf(file)
return Response("Some other problem", 400, mimetype='text/plain')
return """
OCRmyPDF webservice
Upload a PDF (debug UI)
Notice
This is a webservice wrapper for OCRmyPDF.
Copyright 2019 James R. Barlow
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
"""
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=5000)