Re: Python Conversion API Gone -- Now What ??

Christopher Ramírez

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Sep 4, 2012, 5:20:44 PM9/4/12

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There are some Cloud services that through a HTTP API allow you to do conversions and/or OCR.

On Monday, September 3, 2012 7:48:55 AM UTC-6, Sarvesh wrote:

I was counting on the Conversion API for GAE hosted OCR. Too bad it is being taken down. Is there a way I can avoid a separate hosting (CE/AWS etc.) ?

BTW here is what the Conversion Service link says:
Decommissioned!
The Conversion API is being decommissioned. If you use the Conversion API in your application, we strongly encourage you to find an alternative as the API will be removed from the SDK and runtimes in November 2012.

Joakim

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Sep 4, 2012, 6:01:20 PM9/4/12

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Google Docs does have the ability to perform OCR.
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/documents-list/#uploading_documents_using_optical_character_recognition_ocr

Sarvesh

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Sep 9, 2012, 1:03:18 PM9/9/12

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Yes, ABBYY seems like a good one. I will try that. I am thinking use GAE and then POST HTML requests to ABBYY cloud service. Hope it works out ...

Thanks !!

Sarvesh

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Sep 9, 2012, 1:03:51 PM9/9/12

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Not sure if Google Docs can be called from within GAE.

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