From cb37a37f27fe08850dcea0bf30df78f5ebd4610e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Bauer <4690162+dnlbauer@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 13:52:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 19fc3b6..d0b0048 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,2 +1,50 @@ # pdfact-service -Analyze pdf files with pdfact using a simple web API +[![License: Unlicense](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Unlicense-blue.svg)](http://unlicense.org/) +[![Docker](https://img.shields.io/docker/cloud/build/eaudeweb/scratch?label=Docker&style=flat)](https://hub.docker.com/r/dnlbauer/pdfact-service/tags) + +A Webservice to analyze the content of PDF Documents using a HTTP API. This is a simple HTTP wrapper around [ad-freiburg/pdfact](https://github.com/ad-freiburg/pdfact) and builds the container image directly from their source. + +## Usage +Start the service: +```bash +> docker run -p 80:80 dnlbauer/pdfact-service + +[2022-11-27 12:36:38 +0000] [1] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 20.1.0 +[2022-11-27 12:36:38 +0000] [1] [INFO] Listening at: http://0.0.0.0:80 (1) +[2022-11-27 12:36:38 +0000] [1] [INFO] Using worker: gthread +[2022-11-27 12:36:38 +0000] [7] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 7 +``` + +PDFs can be `POST`ed to `/analyze` as multipart file request. The response will contain the output of `pdfact`. The response format can be specified using the correct MIME `Accept` header; `pdfact` van provide json, xml and plain text as output format. + +```bash +> curl -H "Accept: application/json" -F file=@testfile.pdf localhost:80/analyze + +{"paragraphs": [ + {"paragraph": { + "role": "page-header", + "positions": [{ + "minY": 642.6, + "minX": 210.3, + "maxY": 652.6, + "maxX": 401.6, + "page": 1 + }], + "text": "This is a test PDF document." + }}, + {"paragraph": { + "role": "body", + "positions": [{ + "minY": 628.5, + "minX": 91.2, + "maxY": 636.6, + "maxX": 520.8, + "page": 1 + }], + "text": "If you can read this, you are lucky." + }} +]} +``` + +## Thanks +All credits go to the Algorithms and Data Structures Group from University of Freiburg for [ad-freiburg/pdfact](https://github.com/ad-freiburg/pdfact).