OCR Script Setup

This guide will help you set up an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) script using Tesseract and Python.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.12.1
• Tesseract OCR

Installation

Tesseract

Tesseract is an open-source OCR engine that our script uses to convert images to text. You can install it using either Homebrew (for macOS) or Chocolatey (for Windows).

macOS:

To install Tesseract on macOS, use the following command in your terminal:

brew install tesseract

Windows:

In this example, we're using Chocolatey and setting the path to the Tesseract executable.

choco install tesseract

Python Virtual Environment

It's a good practice to create a virtual environment for your Python projects. This keeps the dependencies used by different projects separate.

Create a new virtual environment using the following command:

python -m venv venv

Activate the Virtual Environment

After creating the virtual environment, you need to activate it.

Windows:

To activate the virtual environment on Windows, use the following command in your terminal:

.\venv\Scripts\activate

macOS/Linux:

To activate the virtual environment on macOS or Linux, use the following command in your terminal:

source venv/bin/activate

Install the Required Python Packages

We have a requirements.txt file that lists all the Python packages that our script needs. You can install all of them using the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Now you're all set to run the script!

Run it

python main.py