I really would like to use ABBYY OCR, but I can't get it to work! I when ever I run the code below on my Apache server, running PHP 5, I get this:
Fatal error: Call to a member function attributes() on a non-object in /home/content/76/7290476/html/dumbocr/abbyy_php_example.php on line 36
This is my PHP code:
// 1. Send image to Cloud OCR SDK using processImage call // 2. Get response as xml // 3. Read taskId from xml
// !!!!!!!!!! Enter your data here !!!!!!!!!! $applicationId = 'DumbDrive'; $password = '===password-here===='; $fileName = 'dselogo3.png';
// Get path to file that we are going to recognize $local_directory=dirname(FILE).'';
// Recognizing with English language to rtf // You can use combination of languages like ?language=english,russian or // ?language=english,french,dutch // For details, see API reference for processImage method $url = 'http://cloud.ocrsdk.com/processImage';
// Send HTTP POST request and ret xml response $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$applicationId:$password"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); $post_array = array( "my_file"=>"@".$local_directory.$fileName, ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_array); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch);
// Parse xml response $xml = simplexml_load_string($response); $arr = $xml->task[0]->attributes();
// Task id
$taskid = $arr["id"];
// 4. Get task information in a loop until task processing finishes // 5. If response contains "Completed" staus - extract url with result // 6. Download recognition result (text) and display it
$url = 'http://cloud.ocrsdk.com/getTaskStatus'; $qry_str = "?taskid=$taskid";
// Check task status in a loop until it is finished // TODO: support states indicating error do { sleep(5); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url.$qry_str); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$applicationId:$password"); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch);
// parse xml
$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);
$arr = $xml->task[0]->attributes();
} while($arr["status"] != "Completed");
// Result is ready. Download it
$url = $arr["resultUrl"];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// Let user donwload rtf result header('Content-type: application/rtf'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.rtf"'); echo $response;
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According to the error you receive, you have something wrong with
$arrvariable. Try the following:Check the login credentials you use (they were sent to your email). I've checked sdk server log for your application, there were no HTTP calls from you.
echoout the$responsevar andprint_rthe$xmlobject above. What are their values?Try running
echo function_exists(simplexml_load_string);on your server to make sure you can parse xml the way it is proposed in the example.Check that the
dselogo3.pngis in the same directory with theabbyy_php_example.phpfile.If this won't help, please send the code you use (within a php file, so the code structure would be preserved) to cloudocrsdkbeta@abbyy.com
Please let me know if you could work it out!
It seems that there was a minor error in the PHP code sample: path to the image file being sent to OCR Engine was stated incorrectly. You'll need to add a forward slash between the directory and the filename variables on line 28:
I've sent the working code to your email. We'll update the codesamples in our documentation shortly. Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Hi Nikolay,
I'm having the same prb as Andrey above. I double check the above items and here are the results:
Did you check a forward slash between the directory and the filename variables mentioned in the accepted answer?
Please check your $local_directory variable. In the code you provided it has an /images/ subfolder, so you have to either create this folder and place an image in it or remove it from the variable. Note that in this question there's no such folder in the image path.
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