Show HN: We made a Tesseract Python wrapper using pybind11 (not the CLI)

by s_Hogg • 7 years ago

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s_Hogg3• 7 years ago

We made this because of how much we drool over the python opencv package (cv2), but we didn't want to write as much c++ (here's the relevant file in opencv: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/master/modules/python/...). The existing Tesseract wrappers in python are (to our knowledge), all CLI-based which puts a limit on what you can do with them and also potentially makes debugging and maintaining your code harder. Into that gap comes pybind11 and our wrapper, pysseract.

We think pysseract covers just about all the bases in terms of core functionality and are really proud to make it open to the world, so we hope you like it! If you have any comments, suggestions or pull requests, we're more than happy to chat.

manls• 7 years ago

Honest feedback. In the link you start off directly by describing it as "a Python binding to Tesseract API". It would help if you can briefly explain in the first few lines what Tesseract API is and what it is useful for. It would help someone new to this area not only appreciate what your project is but also what the background to your project is.

Apart from that, great job making something new and then publishing it on PyPI to share with the community.

s_Hogg3• 7 years ago

Thanks very much for this comment, I will make that change today!

anentropic• 7 years ago

Good work! I have to point out that the name kind of reads as "pisser-act" though, which sounds funny in English in case you weren't aware :)

s_Hogg3• 7 years ago

Sure does :)

Show HN: We made a Tesseract Python wrapper using pybind11 (not the CLI)

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