voyageur@gentoo.org
Bernard Cafarelli
python@gentoo.org
Pyocr is an optical character recognition (OCR) tool wrapper for python. That is, it helps using OCR tools from a Python program.
It has been tested only on GNU/Linux systems. It should also work on similar systems (*BSD, etc). It doesn't work on Windows, MacOSX, etc.
Pyocr can be used as a wrapper for google's Tesseract-OCR or Cuneiform. It can read all image types supported by Pillow, including jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, and others. It also support bounding box data.
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