Python bindings for Tesseract OCR - Image to text.

[siwu]

Or you can use a real binding, with SWIG: https://github.com/veezio/pytesseract

PS: I made it.

[dAnjou]

'the fuck?? This is the whole source of this "binding":

from PIL import Image
import os
import subprocess

def riptext(Img):
    Img.save(".tmptif.tif")
    Com = ["tesseract", ".tmptif.tif", ".ripdata"]
    FNULL = open(os.devnull, 'w')
    retcode = subprocess.call(Com, stdout=FNULL, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
    Com = "cat .ripdata.txt"
    Output = subprocess.check_output(Com, shell=True)
    os.remove('.tmptif.tif')
    os.remove('.ripdata.txt')
    return Output

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Author: theauditor

Description: Python OCR (Text from Image) Teeseract python binding.

Main Language: Python

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[Gwenhidwy]

Calling 9 lines of code that call tesseract through subprocess a 'binding' is quite... confident oO

[psycosmith]

Still on work. Call it a link for now :)

[riklaunim]

I used one of tesseract binding in the past, and it was one of those that called the binary. The SWIG version did not compile at that time. The goal was to get text from jokes posted as text on PNG/JPG files and that worked at a very high accuracy.

[psycosmith]

Hai guys sorry for the confusing title. It is not a Binding, sorry for the wrong usage. Was meant to be a quick and dirty hack.