Detect os and use tesseract.exe in windows environment

openpaperwork / pyocr

A Python wrapper for Tesseract and Cuneiform -- Moved to Gnome's Gitlab

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/pyocr

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Detect os and use tesseract.exe in windows environment #31

Closed sylxjtu closed 8 years ago

sylxjtu commented 8 years ago

I'm a windows user and when using this module it can't detect my tesseract, after reading the source I found in windows we should use tesseract.exe instead of tesseract as TESSERACT_PATH.

I think detect os and use tesseract.exe in windows environment will surely decrease the pain of windows users, or at least write something like FAQ in readme will be good.

jflesch commented 8 years ago

As stated in the README, PyOCR has only been tested on GNU/Linux. I haven't tried, but I guess it doesn't work at all with Windows and MacOSX.

If you want to port it to Windows, feel free to do it. I'll gladly accept any patch for that that doesn't break GNU/Linux support. I can't do it myself because I don't have any Windows license.