anjlab / anjlab-ruby-tesseract

Library for using ruby and tesseract

Ruby Tesseract

This is a library for using the tesseract OCR in ruby applications

Dependcies

1. Terreract
2. ImageMagick - Note the command line program convert needs to be accessible to ruby
3. *nix based operating system

##Usage

Please Note the default language is english

tess = Tesseract::Process.new("photo.jpg")
tess.to_s

Config options are also supported

tess = Tesseract::Process.new("photo.jpg", {:lang => :fra, :tesseract_options => {:chop_enable => 0}})
tess.to_s