This is a simple gRPC service to manage the extraction of named entities from text using one of several open source tools. The main reason for having this run in a service is to avoid inlining the required training data and Python dependencies in the main aleph application.
In order to use this container, you need to use the same protocol buffer specifications
active on the server. The simplest way to use them would be via the servicelayer Python
library, but the protocol can also be used independently.
Check out the following client code to see how extract-entities is used:
https://github.com/alephdata/servicelayer/blob/master/servicelayer/rpc/__init__.py
You can also inspect the protocol buffer files directly here:
https://github.com/alephdata/servicelayer/tree/master/protos/servicelayer/rpc
The container itself can be pulled from the DockerHub and will expose a service on port
50000:
docker pull alephdata/recognize-text
docker run -p 50000:50000 -ti alephdata/recognize-text