app.py

import gradio as gr
from transformers import TrOCRProcessor, VisionEncoderDecoderModel
import requests
from PIL import Image

processor = TrOCRProcessor.from_pretrained("microsoft/trocr-base-handwritten")
model = VisionEncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained("microsoft/trocr-base-handwritten")

# load image examples
urls = ['https://fki.tic.heia-fr.ch/static/img/a01-122-02.jpg', 'https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSoolxi9yWGAT5SLZShv8vVd0bz47UWRzQC19fDTeE8GmGv_Rn-PCF1pP1rrUx8kOjA4gg&usqp=CAU',
        'https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRNYtTuSBpZPV_nkBYPMFwVVD9asZOPgHww4epu9EqWgDmXW--sE2o8og40ZfDGo87j5w&usqp=CAU']
for idx, url in enumerate(urls):
  image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
  image.save(f"image_{idx}.png")

def process_image(image):
    # prepare image
    pixel_values = processor(image, return_tensors="pt").pixel_values

    # generate (no beam search)
    generated_ids = model.generate(pixel_values)

    # decode
    generated_text = processor.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]

    return generated_text

title = "TrOCR + EN_ICR"
description = "Demo for handwritten TrOCR"
article = "<p style='text-align: center'><a href='https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10282'>TrOCR: Transformer-based Optical Character Recognition with Pre-trained Models</a> | <a href='https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/master/trocr'>Github Repo</a></p>"
examples =[["img_hw_0.png"], ["img_hw_1.png"]]

iface = gr.Interface(fn=process_image, 
                     inputs=gr.inputs.Image(type="pil"), 
                     outputs=gr.outputs.Textbox(),
                     title=title,
                     description=description,
                     article=article,
                     examples=examples)
iface.launch(debug=True)