Azure CognitiveのComputer Visionで名刺をOCRするPHPのサンプル

# definition for Azure
define("AZ_REGION", "japaneast");
define("VISION_SERVICE_URI", "https://" . AZ_REGION . ".api.cognitive.microsoft.com/vision/v2.0/");
define("OCR_URI", VISION_SERVICE_URI . "ocr");

# definition of VS_API_KEY from Azure Portal or result of az command as follow
# $ az cognitiveservices account keys list -n COG_NAME -g RES_GRP --query key1 -o tsv
define("VS_API_KEY", "API KEY HERE");

# concatenate '.text' in 'words'
function text_concat($words, $item){
	$words .= $item->text;
	return $words;
}

# post an image for Azure Computer Vision OCR
function get_ocr_result($image_path){
	# initiate cURL
	$curl_session = curl_init();
	curl_setopt_array($curl_session,
		array(
			CURLOPT_URL	=>	OCR_URI,
			CURLOPT_POST	=>	true,
			CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER =>	array(
					"Content-Type: application/octet-stream", 
					"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: " . VS_API_KEY
			),
			CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS	=>	file_get_contents($image_path),
			CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER	=>	true,
			CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER	=>	true,
		)
	);
	$curl_result = curl_exec($curl_session);
	curl_close($curl_session);
	$json = json_decode($curl_result);
	# extract texts(chars) from json
	$res_lines = array();
	$max_height = 0;
	foreach($json->regions as $region){
		foreach($region->lines as $ln_num => $line){
			$tmp = array_reduce($line->words, "text_concat");
			list($d, $d, $d, $height) = explode(",", str_replace('"', "", $line->boundingBox));
			# highest font is used for name
			if($max_height < (int)$height){
				$tmp_len = mb_strlen($tmp);
				if(2 <= $tmp_len && $tmp_len <= 8){
					if(preg_match("/^[\p{Han}\p{Hiragana}\p{Katakana}]+$/u", $tmp)) {
						$max_height = (int)$height;
						$maybe_name = $tmp;
					}
				}
			}
			if(strcmp($maybe_name, $tmp) != 0){
				$res_lines[] = $tmp;
			}
		}
	}
	return array($res_lines, $maybe_name);
}

list($lines_in_image, $maybe_name) = get_ocr_result($tmpfile);
var_dump($lines_in_image);
var_dump($maybe_name);