PyTesser version 0.0.1 is available at http://code.google.com/p/pytesser/ What is PyTesser? ============== PyTesser is an Optical Character Recognition module for Python. It takes as input an image or image file containing text and outputs a string. PyTesser uses the Tesseract OCR engine (an Open Source project at Google), converting images to an accepted format and calling the Tesseract executable as an external script. A Windows executable is provided along with the Python scripts. The scripts should work in other operating systems as well. Usage =========

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from pytesser import * image = Image.open('fnord.tif') # Open image object using PIL print image_to_string(image) # Run tesseract executable on image fnord print image_file_to_string('fnord.tif') fnord

License =========== PyTesser is released under the Apache License 2.0. =========== Michael J.T. O'Kelly <mokelly@mit.edu> http://mjtokelly.blogspot.com/ <P><A HREF="http://code.google.com/p/pytesser/">PyTesser v0.0.1</A> - PyTesser is an Optical Character Recognition module for Python using the Tesseract OCR engine. (15-May-07)