Tesseract Python API

Simple Python API wrapper for Tesseract OCR engine

Requirements

• Python >= 3.11.8
• Tesseract >= 5.3.4

Setup

git clone <repo url>
cd <repo>
python -m venv .venv --system-site-packages
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

cd app && python main.py

You can also directly use the docker image

docker build --build-args TESSERACT_LANGUAGES=spa,cat,ita -t tesseract-python-api .
docker run -p 8000:8000 tesseract-python-api

and consume the API at http://localhost:8000

Test

pytest

TODO

• Auth support
• Allow specify the language in the endpoint

License

GPL-3.0. See LICENSE for more information.

Why this wrapper?

I need some simple and generic OCR tool for my side projects. An API wrapper is an easy way to integrate it without worrying about the implementation in the other projects.