tesserocr
Languages and libraries
python library
SHOW HN2016
78points
14comments
#494of 2,264 in 2016
Top 22%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Performance: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Great work and useful wrapper
From 2 comments
Great work, btw! Feature request: It would be great if you could also hook-in to the model training API, if any, of Tesseract. That way, you could drive the training via python…
zo1 on HNThis is great. Did you tune the recognition models at all or is it straight tesseract plus the wrapper.
doppenhe on HN
Objections
Never tested on Windows
From 1 comment
It was never tested on Windows, perhaps you can try the Linux steps on Cygwin? I'm interested in seeing how this can work on Windows as I developed this with Linux in mind which…
sirfz on HN
Requests
Expose Tesseract model training API in Python
From 1 comment
Great work, btw! Feature request: It would be great if you could also hook-in to the model training API, if any, of Tesseract. That way, you could drive the training via python…
zo1 on HN
Questions
How to install on Windows
From 1 comment
Could someone guide me to a step by step guide for installing it in windows ?
batar on HN
Whether recognition models were tuned
From 1 comment
This is great. Did you tune the recognition models at all or is it straight tesseract plus the wrapper.
doppenhe on HN
Alternatives named
pytesseract
From 1 comment
This differs from other python wrappers like pytesseract [1] and pyocr [2] in that tesserocr binds the tesseract c-api. The others call out to the tesseract executable via…
reubano on HN
pyocr
From 1 comment
This differs from other python wrappers like pytesseract [1] and pyocr [2] in that tesserocr binds the tesseract c-api. The others call out to the tesseract executable via…
reubano on HN