tesseract-python - Tesseract binary as a Python module

Current Scope

This module works on a range of configurations, but the PyPi package is more limited at this time.

Platforms	Python 2.7	Python 3.6
Linux x86_64	PyPi	Source
MacOS 10.13	PyPi
Windows

Legend

• PyPi: Available on PyPi.
• Source: Working with setup from source.
• Empty: Planned for some future release.
• No line/column: No plan to date.

Configuration

• Tesseract 3.05.01
• Leptonica 1.74.4
• Pytesseract 0.2.0

Setup

The module setup relies on building Leptonica, then Tesseract, and finally producing a bdist_wheel. The procedure is automated with make.

git clone https://github.com/ic/tesseract-python.git
cd tesseract-python
make wheel

The procedure takes quite some time to complete. The wheel is availble under dist.

Note on package managers

The build scripts rely on the following defaults:

• Apt on the Debian family, Yum on the Redhat family.
• On MacOS, the script tries first MacPorts, then Homebrew.

Important: All managers have been tested, except Homebrew. If a Homebrew-based fails, please compare with the MacPorts version under scripts/{leptonica,tesseract}/dep_darwin.sh (a package may simply be missing or misnamed), and please consider a PR.

Roadmap

• Hopefully manage to get the autoamated PyPi release process nailed and working fully.
• Replace the current ugly shelling to the tesseract binary by proper calls to libtess. Inspiration in tesserocr.

About the license

This repository is under the MIT license. The repository currently exposes code under the GPL 3.0 license for pytesseract, and wraps code under the Apache 2.0 license for Tesseract.