The Ruby OCR SDK supports the Barcode Reader API.

Using the sample below, we are going to illustrate how to extract the data that we want using the OCR SDK.

Quick-Start

require 'mindee'

# Init a new client
mindee_client = Mindee::Client.new(api_key: 'my-api-key')

# Load a file from disk
input_source = mindee_client.source_from_path('/path/to/the/file.ext')

# Parse the file
result = mindee_client.parse(
  input_source,
  Mindee::Product::BarcodeReader::BarcodeReaderV1
)

# Print a full summary of the parsed data in RST format
puts result.document

# Print the document-level parsed data
# puts result.document.inference.prediction

Output (RST):

########
Document
########
:Mindee ID: f9c48da1-a306-4805-8da8-f7231fda2d88
:Filename: default_sample.jpg

Inference
#########
:Product: mindee/barcode_reader v1.0
:Rotation applied: Yes

Prediction
==========
:Barcodes 1D: Mindee
:Barcodes 2D: https://developers.mindee.com/docs/barcode-reader-ocr
              I love paperwork! - Said no one ever

Page Predictions
================

Page 0
------
:Barcodes 1D: Mindee
:Barcodes 2D: https://developers.mindee.com/docs/barcode-reader-ocr
              I love paperwork! - Said no one ever

Field Types

Standard Fields

These fields are generic and used in several products.

Basic Field

Each prediction object contains a set of fields that inherit from the generic Field class.
A typical Field object will have the following attributes:

• value (String, Float, Integer, Boolean): corresponds to the field value. Can be nil if no value was extracted.
• confidence (Float, nil): the confidence score of the field prediction.
• bounding_box (Mindee::Geometry::Quadrilateral, nil): contains exactly 4 relative vertices (points) coordinates of a right rectangle containing the field in the document.
• polygon (Mindee::Geometry::Polygon, nil): contains the relative vertices coordinates (Point) of a polygon containing the field in the image.
• page_id (Integer, nil): the ID of the page, always nil when at document-level.
• reconstructed (Boolean): indicates whether an object was reconstructed (not extracted as the API gave it).

Aside from the previous attributes, all basic fields have access to a to_s method that can be used to print their value as a string.

String Field

The text field StringField only has one constraint: it's value is a String (or nil).

Attributes

The following fields are extracted for Barcode Reader V1:

Barcodes 1D

codes_1d (Array<StringField>): List of decoded 1D barcodes.

for codes_1d_elem in result.document.inference.prediction.codes_1d do
  puts codes_1d_elem.value
end

Barcodes 2D

codes_2d (Array<StringField>): List of decoded 2D barcodes.

for codes_2d_elem in result.document.inference.prediction.codes_2d do
  puts codes_2d_elem.value
end

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