README

Python Interface to Tesseract

PyTesseract creates a PythonType that uses TessBaseAPI to perform OCR on an
Image.  You can use any of the multitude of Python modules to open and convert
an image to a format that tesseract can read.

There is very little error checking, or getters and setters, but that can be
fixed in time.

= Installation =

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

= Dependencies =

For this to build on Ubuntu you need

libiulib-dev
libtiff
tesseract-2.04

= Usage =

import tesseract

t = tesseract.Tesseract(lang="eng")

#Produced Text Output
t.filename="image1.tif"
t.mode = 0
t.get_text()

#Produced Box output
t.filename="image2.tif"
t.mode = 1
t.get_text()

Copyright 2009 Neskie Manuel.

Most of this code is mine, except for the part I lifted from
tesseractmain.cpp.

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