https://github.com/desmondmorris/node-tesseract

A simple wrapper for the Tesseract OCR package
https://github.com/desmondmorris/node-tesseract

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A simple wrapper for the Tesseract OCR package

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/desmondmorris/node-tesseract
• Owner: desmondmorris
• License: other
• Created: 2012-07-04T00:16:34.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-08-21T08:16:53.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-24T18:35:31.112Z (11 days ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 42 KB
• Stars: 675
• Watchers: 27
• Forks: 118
• Open Issues: 38
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Tesseract for node.js

[![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/node-tesseract.png)](https://nodei.co/npm/node-tesseract/)

A simple wrapper for the Tesseract OCR package for node.js

## Requirements

* Tesseract 3.01 or higher is needed for this to work

## Installation

There is a hard dependency on the [Tesseract project](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract).  You can find installation instructions for various platforms on the project site. For Homebrew users, the installation is quick and easy.

    brew install tesseract --with-all-languages

The above will install all of the language packages available, if you don't need them all you can remove the `--all-languages` flag and install them manually, by downloading them to your local machine and then exposing the `TESSDATA_PREFIX` variable into your path:

    export TESSDATA_PREFIX=~/Downloads/

You can then go about installing the node-module to expose the JavaScript API:

    npm install node-tesseract

## Usage

```JavaScript

var tesseract = require('node-tesseract');

// Recognize text of any language in any format

tesseract.process(__dirname + '/path/to/image.jpg',function(err, text) {

	if(err) {

		console.error(err);

	} else {

		console.log(text);

	}

});

// Recognize German text in a single uniform block of text and set the binary path

var options = {

	l: 'deu',

	psm: 6,

	binary: '/usr/local/bin/tesseract'

};

tesseract.process(__dirname + '/path/to/image.jpg', options, function(err, text) {

	if(err) {

		console.error(err);

	} else {

		console.log(text);

	}

});

```

## Changelog

* **0.2.7**: Adds output file extension detection

* **0.2.6**: Catches exception when deleting tmp files that do not exist

* **0.2.5**: Preserves whitespace and replaces tmp module

* **0.2.4**: Removes console logging for messaging

* **0.2.3**: The ability to set the binary path via the config object.  Better installation documentation.

* **0.2.2**: Adds test converage to utils module

* **0.2.1**: Strips leading & trailing whitespace from output by default

* **0.2.0**: Adds ability to pass options via a configuration object.

* **0.1.1**: Updates tmp module.

* **0.1.0**: Removes preprocessing functionatlity.  See #3.

* **0.0.3**: Adds basic test coverage for process method

* **0.0.2**: Pulls in changes by [joscha](https://github.com/joscha) including: refactored to support tesseract 3.01, added language parameter, config parameter, documentation, Added support for custom preprocessors, OTB Preprocessor using ImageMagick 'convert'

* **0.0.1**: Initial version