pysseract 0.1.2

Python binding to Tesseract API

Pysseract

A Python binding to Tesseract API.

Documentation is hosted on readthedocs.

Basic usage

import pysseract
t = pysseract.Pysseract()
t.SetImageFromPath('tests/001-helloworld.png')
print(t.utf8Text)

Build

Requirements

• gcc/clang with at least c++11 support
• libtesseract, libtesseract-dev
• pybind11>=2.2

python3 setup.py test build install

Build document

pip install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme
python3 setup.py build_sphinx

You should find the generated html under build/sphinx.

Contribute

Look at Tesseract BaseAPI and import those functions of interest to pymodule.cpp.

Please write a brief description in your wrapper function like those already in pymodule.cpp.

Reference

• basic pybind11
• class based pybind11
• compiling with pybind11