tesseract

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tesseract

tesseract cmd wrapper

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Overview

Package tesseract implements as a wrapper to tesseract ocr (https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/). It expects tesseract.exe should be in the PATH, otherwise provide the executable path at

tesseract.ExecutablePath = "C:/path/to/tesseract.exe"

Index

• Variables
• func ReadText(r io.Reader) (string, error)
• func ReadTextFromFile(f string) (string, error)

Variables

var ExecutablePath string

ExecutablePath should be tesseract.exe path if tesseract.exe is not in the PATH

Functions

func ReadText

func ReadText(r io.Reader) (string, error)

ReadText read text from the given io.Reader r. It converts to grayscale first before pass it to tesseract. It writes grayscale image and output text file to the os.TempFile.

func ReadTextFromFile

func ReadTextFromFile(f string) (string, error)

ReadTextFromFile read text from the file. It internally calls ReadText after reading the file.