Sudo port install tesseract To install any language data, run: sudo port install tesseract- List of available langcodes can be found on MacPorts tesseract page. To install Tesseract run this command: brew install tesseract Windows. An unofficial installer for windows for Tesseract 3.05-dev and Tesseract 4.00-dev is available from Tesseract at UB Mannheim.
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Compilation guide for various platforms Note: This wiki expects you to be familiar with compiling software on your operation system. Table of contents.
Linux The build instructions for Linux also apply to other UNIX like operating systems. Git clone cd tesseract./autogen.sh./configure CC=gcc-6 CXX=g-6 CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/icu4c/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib make -j sudo make install # if desired make training Common Errors. To fix this error./configure: line 4237: syntax error near unexpected token `-mavx,'./configure: line 4237: `AXCHECKCOMPILEFLAG(-mavx, avx=1, avx=0)' ensure that autoconf-archive is installed. Don't forget to run./autogen.sh after the installation of autoconf-archive. If configure fails with such error 'configure: error: Leptonica 1.74 or higher is required.'
Try to install libleptonica-dev package. If you are sure you have installed leptonica (for example in /usr/local) then probably pkg-config is not looking at your install folder (check with pkg-config -variable pcpath pkg-config). A solution is to set PKGCONFIGPATH: example: PKGCONFIGPATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. On some systems autotools does not create m4 directory automatically (giving the error: 'configure: error: cannot find macro directory 'm4'). In this case you must create m4 directory ( mkdir m4), and then rerun the above commands starting with./configure. Miscellaneous.
Today’s blog post is part one in a two part series on installing and using the for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR is the automatic process of converting typed, handwritten, or printed text to machine-encoded text that we can access and manipulate via a string variable. Part one of this series will focus on installing and configuring Tesseract on your machine, followed by utilizing the tesseract command to apply OCR to input images. In next week’s blog post we’ll discover how to use the Python “bindings” to the Tesseract library to call Tesseract directly from your Python script. To learn more about Tesseract and how it can be used for OCR, just keep reading. Looking for the source code to this post?
Installing Tesseract for OCR Tesseract, originally developed by Hewlett Packard in the 1980s, was open-sourced in 2005. Later, in 2006, Google adopted the project and has been a sponsor ever since. The Tesseract software works with many natural languages from English (initially) to Punjabi to Yiddish. Since the updates in 2015, it now supports over 100 written languages and has code in place so that it can easily be trained on other languages as well. Originally a C program, it was ported to C in 1998. The software is headless and can be executed via the command line.
It does not come with a GUI but there are several other software packages that wrap around Tesseract to provide a GUI interface. To read more about Tesseract visit the and read the. In this blog post we will:. Install Tesseract on our systems. Validate that the Tesseract install is working correctly.
Try Tesseract OCR on some sample input images. After going through this tutorial you will have the knowledge to run Tesseract on your own images. Step #1: Install Tesseract In order to use the Tesseract library, we first need to install it on our system. For macOS users, we’ll be using to install Tesseract.
Bash: tesseract: command not found Then Tesseract was not properly installed on your system. Go back to Step #1 and check for errors. Additionally, you may need to update your PATH variable (for advanced users only). Step #3: Test out Tesseract OCR For Tesseract OCR to obtain reasonable results, you’ll want to supply images that are cleanly pre-processed. When utilizing Tesseract, I recommend:. Using as an input image with as high resolution and DPI as possible. Applying thresholding to segment the text from the background.
Ensuring the foreground is as clearly segmented from the background as possible (i.e., no pixelations or character deformations). Applying to the input image to ensure the text is properly aligned. Deviations from these recommendations can lead to incorrect OCR results as we’ll find out later in this tutorial. Now, let’s apply OCR to the following image. 650 3428 Once again, Tesseract correctly identified our string of characters (in this case digits only). In each of these three situations Tesseract was able to correctly OCR all of our images — and you may even be thinking that Tesseract is the right tool for all OCR uses cases.
However, as we’ll find out in the next section, Tesseract has a number of limitations. Limitations of Tesseract for OCR A few weeks ago I was working on a project to recognize the 16-digit numbers on credit cards. I was easily able to write Python code to localize each of the four groups of 4-digits. Here is an example 4-digit region of interest. 5513 Notice how Tesseract reported 5513, but the image clearly shows 5678. Unfortunately, this is a great example of a limitation of Tesseract. While we have segmented the foreground text from background, the pixelated nature of the text “confuses” Tesseract.
It’s also likely that Tesseract was not trained on a credit card-like font. Tesseract is best suited when building document processing pipelines where images are scanned in, pre-processed, and then Optical Character Recognition needs to be applied. We should note that Tesseract is not an off-the-shelf solution to OCR that will work in all (or even most) image processing and computer vision applications. In order to accomplish that, you’ll need to apply feature extraction techniques, machine learning, and deep learning. A great example of applying feature extraction and machine learning to build a handwriting recognition system can be found inside my book,.
Summary Today we learned how to install and configure Tesseract on our machines, the first part in a two part series on using Tesseract for OCR. We then used the tesseract binary to apply OCR to input images.
However, we found out that unless our images are cleanly segmented Tesseract will give poor results. In the case of “noisy” input images, we’ll likely obtain better accuracy by training a custom machine learning model to recognize characters in our specific use case. Tesseract is best suited for situations with high resolution inputs where the foreground text is cleanly segmented from the background. Next week we’ll learn how to access Tesseract via Python code, so stay tuned.
To be notified when the next blog post on Tesseract goes live, be sure to enter your email address in the form below! Thanks for this. While there are free online services for OCR, they are web / gui based and not helpful. The Google Drive OCR option for uploaded documents is also web /gui based. The Google cloud platform OCR does a good job, but it still requires uploading the image to the cloud, subsequently using an API to do the OCR. But Google OCR API is not free and a bit of a pain to use. Tesseract can run locally without uploading anything to the internet.
This command line approach worked well for me and I look forward to Part 2 so I can use it from Python. G’day Adrian, I’ve recently spent a lot of time getting Tesseract to work nicely for OCR of some documents. I found that disabling the use of dictionaries (since I’m not not parsing prose), using character whitelists and training for specific fonts was needed to get reliable results. As an aside, if you need to train for a specific font, give this website a crack (I have no affiliation with them, but found it useful): Noise is a problem for sure.
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I use morphological operators to fill and smooth, but I still get some problems. Doing your own thresholding is a must as the built in thresholding seems pretty basic and doesn’t do a very good job. Once you get it working for a given application, Tesseract can work well.
But, it certainly needs a lot of hand holding to get there. Thanks for another great article! I haven’t used Tesseract before, but thanks to this article I should be able to 🙂 Just one thought about the statement “PyImageSearch does not support or recommend Windows for computer vision development”, About a year back I would have agreed with you (and I use Linux for most of my development still).
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But Windows has matured a lot since then, and many computer vision and machine learning tools/libraries does work quite well with Windows now. I think it’s worth a shot giving Windows a chance. (Here’s some posts I made on setting up things on Windows: ) Just a thought 🙂. Hi Adrian, I just recently subscribed to your messages and I have been playing with examples you created. I’m actually pretty new to Python and so far I’m enjoying the ride. I have a question i’m hoping you can help me with.
I have been testing out the results of running pytesseract with various options. Setting the config to “config=’-psm xx'” works just fine but I can’t get it to read my custom config file which I placed in my tessdata folder (C: Program Files (x86) Tesseract-OCR tessdata configs). Is there a different folder perhaps which stores the pytesseract config files?