tess

Simple cli wrapper for Tesseract.

The wrapper simply passes all cli arguments to Tesseract but adds an input and output option clip. Input to pass an image from your clipboard as input to Tesseract, and output to copy text output from Tesseract to your clipboard.

Note: If you want a library for production use in your go program then you should instead use gosseract.

Why?

I wanted a quick and easy way to extract text from snipped images. For example, have you ever wanted to grab a UUID from a screenshot? How about grab text from an image of a PDF?

Installation

Install Tesseract and put it in your $PATH.

Ensure $GOPATH/bin is in your $PATH.

Install tess with the following command:

go install github.com/travisyeah/tess

Example

Add an image to your clipboard (e.g. by snipping) then run the following command to extract text from the image and print it to stdout:

tess

Documentation

Use the Tesseract Documentation or get the documentation from the command line:

tess --help

Note: Default arguments for in/out are both clip if no arguments are given.