Text from Image Scanner Telegram Bot ·

Simple Telegram Bot to extract text from image based on ocr api

Check out The Sample Bot

Installing / Getting started

Go to @botfather and create a new bot. Copy your api token and setwebhook by pasting this link on browser.

· Change XXXXXX with your bot token
· Change url to domain you host the php file.

https://api.telegram.org/botXXXXXX/setWebHook?url=yourdomain.com/bot.php

Code to edit

Just edit 2nd line by changing api key on bot.php api key can be found here https://ocr.space/ocrapi

//Change OCR-KEY to your api key from ocr.space website
            $result = file_get_contents('http://api.ocr.space/parse/imageurl?apikey=<OCR-KEY-XXX>&url='.$id_url);
            $result=json_decode($result, true);
            $str='';
            foreach($result['ParsedResults'] as $pareValue) 
                {
                            $str.= strval($pareValue['ParsedText']);
                }
                if($str!=""){ 
                $re= 
                array(
                'chat_id' => $chatId, 
                'text' => "🔍Scanned Text:\n$str\n\n@horansoftware",
                'disable_web_page_preview' => false,);
                    send("sendMessage", $re);
                }   #end

Change Bot API Token

Don't forget pasting your bot token every where needed in the bot.php

$path = "https://api.telegram.org/bot<Your Bot Token>/";

Code Written by Gemechis Elias