Tesseract for Node.js
A simple wrapper for the Tesseract OCR package for Node.js
Installation
npm install nodecr
Versions
- 0.0.5: Add possibility to override logger (quiet nodecr, see example below)
- 0.0.4: Changed name to nodecr and published node module (formerly node-tesseract)
- 0.0.3: Added support for custom preprocessors, OTB Preprocessor using ImageMagick 'convert'
- 0.0.2: Refactored to support tesseract 3.01, added language parameter, config parameter, documentation
- 0.0.1: Initial version from Desmond Morris
Usage
var nodecr = require('nodecr'); // Recognise text of any language in any formatnodecr.process(__dirname + '/path/to/image.jpg',function(err, text) { if(err) { console.error(err); } else { console.log(text); }}); // Recognise German text in a single uniform block of textnodecr.process(__dirname + '/path/to/image.jpg',function(err, text) { if(err) { console.error(err); } else { console.log(text); }}, 'deu', 6); // Recognise text of any language in any format but preprocess the image// with ImageMagick 'convert' (This requires ImageMagick to be installed) // uncomment this to quiet nodecr//nodecr.log = function() {}; // You can write and use your own preprocessors easily, just have a look at src/nodecr.coffeenodecr.process(__dirname + '/path/to/image.jpg',function(err, text) { if(err) { console.error(err); } else { console.log(text); } console.log(text);}, null, null, null, nodecr.preprocessors.convert);
License
MIT