From 7c4de6d88664d2ea1b084f316a11896dde3e1150 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aktersnurra <gustaf.rydholm@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 22:39:54 +0200
Subject: latest

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 src/text_recognizer/character_predictor.py | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/text_recognizer/character_predictor.py

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diff --git a/src/text_recognizer/character_predictor.py b/src/text_recognizer/character_predictor.py
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+"""CharacterPredictor class."""
+
+from typing import Tuple, Union
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from text_recognizer.models import CharacterModel
+from text_recognizer.util import read_image
+
+
+class CharacterPredictor:
+    """Recognizes the character in handwritten character images."""
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        """Intializes the CharacterModel and load the pretrained weights."""
+        self.model = CharacterModel()
+        self.model.load_weights()
+        self.model.eval()
+
+    def predict(self, image_or_filename: Union[np.ndarray, str]) -> Tuple[str, float]:
+        """Predict on a single images contianing a handwritten character."""
+        if isinstance(image_or_filename, str):
+            image = read_image(image_or_filename, grayscale=True)
+        else:
+            image = image_or_filename
+        return self.model.predict_on_image(image)
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