On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Xander Cage <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to use tesseract with Python in a win7 environment. I've never done this (I have used leptonica from Python), but here's some suggestions. 1) Grown your own up to date solution: Basically, you use the Python ctypes module --- the documentation is at [1] for Python 3.x, or [2] for Python 2.x (read these *carefully* and you'll learn everything you need to know) --- the appropriate libtesseract DLL, and capi.h [3]. An alternative is using boost python [4] if you want to try accessing libtesseract via the C++ interface (baseapi.h). Some people on the python mailing list [5] tend to suggest Cython [6] when this sort of question comes up. Frankly, I would never attempt this myself without becoming very familiar with using libtesseract from C/C++ first. Otherwise it can be difficult to know what *should* be happening and therefore distinguish Python calling issues from incorrect libtesseract usage (or bugs). As I mentioned in another recent post, you can still get Visual Studio 2008 Express free from here [7] if you want to try C/C++. Also then read my (somewhat out of date) "Visual Studio 2008 Developer Notes for Tesseract-OCR" docs [8]. Or... 2) Try python-tesseract [9] even though it's not the latest version of tesseract (but once you understand how it works it can probably be updated without too much trouble). [1] http://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html [2] http://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html [3] http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/source/browse/trunk/api/capi.h [4] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/libs/python/doc/ [5] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list [6] http://cython.org/ [7] [2] http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/8/E/E8EEB394-7F42-4963-A2D8-29559B738298/VS2008ExpressWithSP1ENUX1504728.iso [8] http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/vs2008/doc/index.html [9] https://code.google.com/p/python-tesseract/ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
