Python Wrapper Class for Tesseract

(Linux & Mac OS X & Windows)

It is a wrapper class for Tesseract OCR. Python-tesseract allows any conventional image file (JPG, GIF ,PNG , TIFF and etc) to be read and decoded into readable languages. No temporary file will be created during the OCR processing.

Example:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#from __future__ import print_function

import tesseract
api = tesseract.TessBaseAPI()
api.Init(".","eng",tesseract.OEM_DEFAULT)
api.SetPageSegMode(tesseract.PSM_AUTO)


mImgFile = "eurotext.jpg"
mBuffer=open(mImgFile).read()
result = tesseract.ProcessPagesBuffer(mBuffer,len(mBuffer),api)
print "result(ProcessPagesBuffer)=",result