tess-py-api 0.0.12

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tess_py_api

Python wrapper around Tesseract-OCR C language API using Python built-in ctypes module.

tess_py_api is much faster than pytesseract when dealing with more than one image and lets Python developers use all of the Tesseract library functionality using the auto-generated Python base wrapper.

INSTALLATION

me@home:~$ pip install tess_py_api

To use this module you need to have Tesseract installed.

For Windows users, Tesseract-OCR executable can be downloaded from here (note that you will need to add Tesseract to your path).

For Linux users, you can compile Tesseract from source or get it via your package manager (note that you will need to add an enviroment variable called TESSDATA_PREFIX pointing to your tessdata directory).

USAGE

from tess_py_api import Pyapi

api = Pyapi("eng")

image_path = "/path/to/image"
print(api.image_to_string(image_path))
  

if you have OpenCV installed you can use it:

import cv2 as cv
from tess_py_api import Pyapi

api = Pyapi("eng")

image = cv.imread("path/to/image")

print(api.image_to_string(image))

or you can use python built-in PIL/pillow:

from PIL import Image
from tess_py_api import Pyapi

api = Pyapi("eng")

image = Image.open("path/to/image")

print(api.image_to_string(image)

Python context manager is also supported:

from tess_py_api import Pyapi

with Pyapi("eng") as api:
  print(api.image_to_string("/path/to/image"))

LICENSE

This repository is under the MIT license. The repository wraps code under the Apache 2.0 license for Tesseract.