tessy

tessy is a Python wrapper for Google's Tesseract-OCR, an optical character recognition engine used to detect and extract text data from various image file formats.

Features

• No initial dependencies beside Tesseract.
• Supports input image in PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF, TIF and BMP format.
• Supports multiple input images via text file (.txt).
• Supports image objects from:
  • Pillow (Image)
  • wxPython (wx.Image)
  • PyQt4/ PyQt5/ PySide (QImage)
  • OpenCV (ndarray)
• Dynamically detect and import the corresponding image module on runtime.
• Supports txt, box, pdf, hocr, tsv and osd as output file format.
• Supports multiple output format.
• Can convert any raw output data to string, bytes or dict (except pdf).
• Works on macOS, Linux and Windows.
• Well documented.