pytesseract-api 1.0.4

Tesseract C-API in python, a faster alternative to pytesseract

pytesseract-api

Tesseract C-API in python, a faster alternative to pytesseract

Installation

You can install the package via pip:

pip install pytesseract-api

Usage

import cv2

from pytesseract_api import image_to_string
from pytesseract_api.api import set_variable

img = cv2.imread("sample.png")
text = image_to_string(img)
print(text)

img = cv2.imread("digits.png")
set_variable("tessedit_char_whitelist", "0123456789")
text = image_to_string(img)
set_variable("tessedit_char_whitelist", "") # reset

Limitations

• Only supports opencv images as input as of now

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

If you want to contact me you can reach me at [e-mail].