Examples

To get the OCR data from an image you need do the following

1. Create an Engine object that points to the path that the tesseract data files are stored.
2. Get a Reader object using the newly created engine instance using its Engine.get_reader() method.
3. Use the reader object’s read() method to generate text.

from uiucprescon import ocr

tesseract_engine = ocr.Engine("c:/tessdata")
reader = tesseract_engine.get_reader(lang="eng")
text = reader.read("IlliniLore_1944_00000011.tif")