Image Text Extractor Script

Dependencies

Requires the libraries tesseract >= 5.4.1, imagemagick >= 7.1.1-36 and bc >= 1.07.1.

Example installation command (Manjaro):

pamac install tesseract imagemagick bc

Usage

The accepted extensions are jpg, jpeg and png.

Run to extract text:

./scanner.py /path/to/images

In the same directory of the images that was informed when executing the command, a txt will be generated with the extracted information. An image with the suffix _converted will also be generated, this is the image processed for better reading.

To clear the path (remove txt and images with _converted):

./scanner.py /path/to/images --clear

Credits

More information about the textcleaner script can be found at this link.