oryon-dominik / tesseract-simple-gui

a very simple graphical User Interface for the OCR-Software Tesseract

Tesseract simple GUI

A very simple graphical User Interface for the OCR-Software Tesseract written in Python.

The pure purpose is to convert images to .txt files via GUI - no special cases are adressed. Feel free to request features though.

Installation

Windows Users can download the executable and run the program as a standalone.

Other OSs have to compile for themselves or just use the script.

A valid installation of tesseract in your path-environment is required. You may follow the installation-instructions in the tesseract repository.

Windows Users may use a Windows-Installer. On 64-bit Windows and Tesseract-Version 4.0.0 the installation directory is <Your Users Home>\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR, click here for a tutorial on how-to modify your windows-10 PATH accordingly or modify the powershell-commands below for your needs:

$user_env = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", "User")
$tesseract_path = "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR"
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", "$user_env;$tesseract_path", "User")

Usage

Should be pretty self-explanatory:

• Import a file with "Choose File"
• Click "OCR"
• A text file has been created in your images directory, you can also copy the text directly from the GUI

Languages

Modify or create the file lang.json in the executables directory with the language abbreviation and the encoding (see example) you want to use. Obviously the language has to be already installed with tesseract. (Check for .traineddata-files in ...\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata)

Example lang.json:

{
    "language": "eng",
    "encoding": "utf-8"
}