test_tess.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Sat Dec  6 17:18:11 2014

@author: rafik
"""

import tesseract
api = tesseract.TessBaseAPI()
api.SetOutputName("outputName");
api.Init(".","eng",tesseract.OEM_DEFAULT)
api.SetPageSegMode(tesseract.PSM_AUTO)
mImgFile = "eurotext.jpg"
pixImage=tesseract.pixRead(mImgFile)
api.SetImage(pixImage)
outText=api.GetUTF8Text()
print("OCR output:\n%s"%outText);
api.End()