OCR-with-format 0.7

Wrapper to pytesseract to preserve space and formatting

OCR_with_format

• simple wrapper that postprocesses pytesseract's hOCR output to maintain format and spacings.
• Link to an alternative implementation found on stackoverflow

How to

• install python -m pip install OCR_with_format
• see usage OCR_with_format --help (executing with python -m is not supported)

Usage

NAME
    OCR_with_format

SYNOPSIS
    OCR_with_format IMG_PATH THRESHOLDING_METHOD <flags>

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
    IMG_PATH
        Type: str
        path to the image you want to do OCR on
    THRESHOLDING_METHOD
        Type: str
        any from "otsu", "otsu_gaussian", "adaptative_gaussian", "all"

        If "all", the three methods will be tried and the final output will be the one which maximizes the mean and median confidences over each parsed words.

FLAGS
    -l, --language=LANGUAGE
        Type: str
        Default: 'eng'
        language to look for in the image
    -o, --output_path=OUTPUT_PATH
        Type: Optional[str]
        Default: None
        if not None, will output to this path and erase its previous content.
    -t, --tesseract_args=TESSERACT_ARGS
        Type: str
        Default: '-...
        default arguments for tesseract
    -q, --quiet=QUIET
        Default: False
        if True, will only print the output and no logs
    -c, --comparison_run=COMPARISON_RUN
        Default: False
        if True, will just output the raw output from pytesseract. This can be used to convince yourself of the usefullness of this project.

NOTES
    You can also use flags syntax for POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

Example

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