Simple and modern Node.js wrapper implementation for Tesseract OCR CLI.
- focus on high performance
- both promise and callback APIs are supported
- full test coverage
- void of sync operations
- no temp files are used
const recognize = require('tesseractocr')
recognize(`${__dirname}/image.png`, (err, text) => {
if (err)
throw err
else
console.log('Yay! Text recognized!', text)
})The overall API documentation can be found here
There is a hard dependency on the Tesseract project. You can find installation instructions for various platforms on the project site. For Homebrew users, the installation is quick and easy.
brew install tesseract --with-all-languages
The above will install all of the language packages available, if you don't need them all you can remove the --all-languages flag and install them manually, by downloading them to your local machine and then exposing the TESSDATA_PREFIX variable into your path:
export TESSDATA_PREFIX=~/Downloads/
You can then go about installing the Node.js package to expose the JavaScript API:
npm install tesseractocr
Clone the repo, npm install and then npm test or npm run benchmarks.
The project's changelog is available here