/tess-based-text-from-image

helps to extract text from images using javascript

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Text from Image

This package helps you extract text from images. This works using the tesseract ocr engine.

Installation

npm install --save text-from-image

Usage

This gives a promise which can be used further for various uses

const ReadText = require('text-from-image')

ReadText('./image.png').then(text => {
    console.log(text);
}).catch(err => {
    console.log(err);
})

Please take care

  • Image can be Buffer, PNG, JPG, etc.
  • The clear the image the better.
  • You can use Sharp or other image processing library to modify image before sending it to the function

Development /Issues

For any issues found please create a pull request

If you're interested in developing it please follow GitHub repo.