• Tesseract-Capi - Tesseract C API wrapper This system provides SWIG generated C API wrappers for Tesseract versions 3.05.02, 4.1.1, and 5.0.0. Using https://github.com/egao1980/swig/tree/revive-cffi as SWIG dropped CFFI support a while ago.

** Usage

+begin_src lisp

CL-USER> (ql:quickload :tesseract-capi) To load "tesseract-capi": Load 1 ASDF system: tesseract-capi ; Loading "tesseract-capi" ... (:TESSERACT-CAPI) CL-USER> (tesseract-capi:tessversion) "5.0.0-alpha-647-g4a00"

+end_src

** Installation Preferred way of installing tesseract-capi is by using Ultralisp.org distribution.

+begin_src lisp

;; install Ultralisp if you haven't done it yet (ql-dist:install-dist "http://dist.ultralisp.org/" :prompt nil)

;; install the wrapper code (ql:quickload :tesseract-capi)

(let ((tesseract-capi:tessdata-directory "path/to/tessdata")) (tesseract-capi:image-to-text "tests/data/fox.png"))

"This is a lot of 12 point text to test the ocr code and see if it works on all types of fle format

The quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox. The quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox. The quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox. The quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox "

+end_src

** Author

• Nikolai Matiushev

** Credits

• Inspired by and uses parts of code from https://github.com/GOFAI/cl-tesseract

** Copyright

2020 Nikolai Matiushev 2015 Edward Geist (egeist@stanford.edu) ** License

Licensed under the MIT License.