digirolamo / piltesseract

Simple Tesseract wrapper for converting PIL Images to text.

PILtesseract

Simple Tesseract wrapper for converting PIL Images to text.

Warning: PILtesseract is intended to only work with tesseract 3.03+, one awesome feature added in 3.03 is the ability to pipe images via stdin, PILtesseract utilizes this feature.

Features

• Completely wraps Tesseract-OCR command line optional arguments.
• Sends PIL images to tesseract through stdin (avoids creating a temp file).
• Works for Python 2 and 3.
• All working code in one file.
• MIT License
• Documentation

Here is a simple example:

>>> from PIL import Image
>>> from piltesseract import get_text_from_image
>>> image = Image.open('quickfox.png')
>>> get_text_from_image(image)
'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'

See Advanced Example
See Recipes

Requirements

More detailed installation instructions can be found here.

• Tesseract-OCR: 3.03 or higher
  • First install either from source or from binaries.
  • Ensure that the tesseract binary folder is on your PATH.
• Pillow
  • $ pip install Pillow
• Six
  • $ pip install six

Install

$ pip install piltesseract

piltesseract's Issues

The pypi page of PILtesseract looks strange

AFAIK pypi needs rst, markdown is not supported.