README.md

OCR-tesseract-SE

OCR program based on Pytesseract - a wrapper for Tesseract. It includes language models to enhance the OCR performance.

Getting started

• Install Tesseract

  • For Mac users: brew install tesseract
  • For Windows users: The latest installer can be downloaded from here.
  • For Linux users: sudo apt install tesseract-ocr -y

• Add tesseract path to system environment variable

• Download language models here.

• Google colab notebook

Usage

• Run OCR_singleImage.ipynb to produce a searchable Pdf and OCR text as an output.
• Run OCR_multipleImage.ipynb to process multiple images in batches.
• Run OCR_textExtractor.ipynb to perform text detection using pytesseract.

For non-technical users

If you are from non-technical background, and would like to set up pytesseract on your computer from scratch, please refer to instructions here: Mac, Windows. The guide also includes instructions to set up python and virtual environment.

Acknowledgements

• Our implementation is based on Google's tesseract OCR engine.

Contact

Ekta Vats (ekta.vats@abm.uu.se)
Centre for Digital Humanities
Uppsala University
Sweden