I want to convert a tiff image file to text document. My code works as I expected to convert tiff images with usual font, but it's not working for French script font. My tiff image file contains text. The font of text is in French script format. Here is my code:
import Image
import subprocess
import util
import errors
tesseract_exe_name = 'tesseract' # Name of executable to be called at command line
scratch_image_name = "temp.bmp" # This file must be .bmp or other Tesseract-compatible format
scratch_text_name_root = "temp" # Leave out the .txt extension
cleanup_scratch_flag = True # Temporary files cleaned up after OCR operation
def call_tesseract(input_filename, output_filename):
"""Calls external tesseract.exe on input file (restrictions on types),
outputting output_filename+'txt'"""
args = [tesseract_exe_name, input_filename, output_filename]
proc = subprocess.Popen(args)
retcode = proc.wait()
if retcode!=0:
errors.check_for_errors()
def image_to_string(im, cleanup = cleanup_scratch_flag):
"""Converts im to file, applies tesseract, and fetches resulting text.
If cleanup=True, delete scratch files after operation."""
try:
util.image_to_scratch(im, scratch_image_name)
call_tesseract(scratch_image_name, scratch_text_name_root)
text = util.retrieve_text(scratch_text_name_root)
finally:
if cleanup:
util.perform_cleanup(scratch_image_name, scratch_text_name_root)
return text
def image_file_to_string(filename, cleanup = cleanup_scratch_flag, graceful_errors=True):
If cleanup=True, delete scratch files after operation."""
try:
try:
call_tesseract(filename, scratch_text_name_root)
text = util.retrieve_text(scratch_text_name_root)
except errors.Tesser_General_Exception:
if graceful_errors:
im = Image.open(filename)
text = image_to_string(im, cleanup)
else:
raise
finally:
if cleanup:
util.perform_cleanup(scratch_image_name, scratch_text_name_root)
return text
if __name__=='__main__':
im = Image.open("/home/oomsys/phototest.tif")
text = image_to_string(im)
print text
try:
text = image_file_to_string('fnord.tif', graceful_errors=False)
except errors.Tesser_General_Exception, value:
print "fnord.tif is incompatible filetype. Try graceful_errors=True"
print value
text = image_file_to_string('fnord.tif', graceful_errors=True)
print "fnord.tif contents:", text
text = image_file_to_string('fonts_test.png', graceful_errors=True)
print text
