Perl Cloud SDK to Extract OCR or HOCR Text from Images Using Powerful Aspose.OCR Cloud APIs

Aspose.OCR Cloud

Aspose.OCR CloudAspose.OCR Cloud’s platform independent character recognition API is a true REST API that can be used with any language: .NET, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js and many more. You can use it with any platform — web, desktop, mobile, and cloud. Aspose.OCR Cloud is a cloud-based REST API for optical character recognition and document scanning. It allows you to scan documents and recognize characters. Recognize text in English and other languages, and recognize text in only part of an image. Aspose.OCR Cloud supports a variety of fonts in different styles, like regular, bold, and italic, and different image formats. You can use Aspose.OCR Cloud in many scenarios, for example, extracting text and saving to a database. Learn More What’s new in the latest release This is a major release for Aspose.OCR Cloud SDK for Perl. It covers all the Aspose.OCR Cloud APIs. This SDK provides a complete solution for character recognition in perl using powerful Aspose.OCRs Cloud APIs, so you can add OCR functionality in your applications seamlessly. Source Code Repository Complete source code of this release of Aspose.OCR Cloud SDK for Perl is freely available on your favorite GitHub and Codeplex repositories. Setup Aspose.OCR Cloud SDK for Perl is also available as a released package in the CPAN (Perl Archive Network) . You can bypass GitHub source code repository and depend directly on the released package by installing from cpan: Aspose.OCR Cloud SDK for Perl – CPAN installation

sudo cpan AsposeOcrCloud::OcrApi
You can also manually build the module by downloading the code and executing the following in the root directory of the download:

perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install
Data In order to manipulate any files, you first need to upload them to the Aspose cloud storage or 3rd party cloud storage using Aspose.Storage Cloud SDK for Perl. Quick SDK Tutorial

use lib 'lib';
use strict;
use warnings;

use AsposeOcrCloud::OcrApi;
use AsposeOcrCloud::ApiClient;
use AsposeOcrCloud::Configuration;

$AsposeOcrCloud::Configuration::app_sid = 'XXX';
$AsposeOcrCloud::Configuration::api_key = 'XXX';

$AsposeOcrCloud::Configuration::debug = 1;

#Instantiate Aspose.OCR API SDK
my $ocrApi = AsposeOcrCloud::OcrApi->new();

my $data_path = '../data/';

#set input file name
my $url = 'https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/zj35mqdouoxy3rs/Sampleocr.bmp';
my $language = 'english';

#invoke Aspose.OCR Cloud SDK API to extract image text from web url    
my $response = $ocrApi->PostOcrFromUrlOrContent(url=> $url, language=> $language);

if($response->{'Status'} eq 'OK'){
    print "n Text :: " . $response->{'Text'};
  }
Aspose.OCR Cloud API Documentation Aspose.OCR Cloud Documentation is available to guide developers to get familiar with the specific resources and operations within the Aspose.OCR Cloud REST API. Aspose.OCR Cloud SDK for Perl Examples Aspose.OCR Cloud SDK for Perl Examples are also available to guide developers to get familiar with SDK and its usage to invoke resources and operations using the Aspose.OCR Cloud REST API. Please see the SDK examples of following categories. Start a Free Trial Today Start a free trial today – all you need is to sign up with the Aspose Cloud service. Once you have signed up, you are ready to try the powerful file processing features offered by Aspose Cloud.