pic-search-ocr 1.0.1

Search the text of images in your folder with Tesseract OCR.

pic-search

Search the text of images in your folder.

Usage

pic-search "string" [--recursive] [--dir $DIR] [--tesseract $DIR] [--verbose]

Where:

• string is the string to search for.
• --recursive (optional) will search for the string in all subdirectories.
• --dir $DIR (optional) is the directory to search in. Defaults to the current directory.
• --tesseract $EXE (optional) is the path to the tesseract executable, only needed if it's not in the path or TESSERACT_EXE environment variable.
• --verbose (optional) will print more information to the console.

Installation

Install Tesseract: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Installation.html

Tesseract MUST be installed separately.

Then, tesseract directory must either be:

• In the path
• In the folder of TESSERACT_EXE environment variable
• Given as --tesseract $EXE CLI Option

This tool itself can be installed with pip:

pip install pic-search-ocr

Or any similar package manager, like uv:

uv pip install pic-search-ocr