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Image-to-text Tesseract command line wrapper.

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PILtesseract
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Simple Tesseract wrapper for converting PIL Images to text.

**Warning:** PILtesseract is intended to only work with tesseract 3.03+,
one awesome feature added in 3.03 is the ability to pipe images via stdin,
PILtesseract utilizes this feature.

Features
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- Completely wraps [Tesseract-OCR](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) command line optional arguments.
- Sends [PIL](https://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) images to tesseract through stdin (avoids creating a temp file).
- Works for Python 2 and 3.
- All working code in [one file](https://github.com/Digirolamo/PILtesseract/blob/master/piltesseract/tesseractwrapper.py).
- [MIT License](https://github.com/Digirolamo/PILtesseract/blob/master/LICENSE)
- [Documentation](http://piltesseract.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)

Here is a simple example:


>>> from PIL import Image
>>> from piltesseract import get_text_from_image
>>> image = Image.open('quickfox.png')
>>> get_text_from_image(image)
'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'

See [Advanced Example](http://piltesseract.readthedocs.org/en/latest/example.html)
See [Recipes](http://piltesseract.readthedocs.org/en/latest/recipes.html)

Requirements
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More detailed installation instructions can be found [here](http://piltesseract.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html).
- [Tesseract-OCR](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract): 3.03 or higher
- First install either from source or from [binaries](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki).
- Ensure that the tesseract binary folder is on your [PATH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable)).
- [Pillow](https://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
- ```$ pip install Pillow```
- [Six](https://pythonhosted.org/six/)
- ```$ pip install six```

Install
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$ pip install piltesseract

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