This is just a very basic example of how to use the Tesseract OCR engine within a PHP application. This code uses thiagoalessio/tesseract_ocr as an API bridge to the locally installed Tesseract OCR engine.
Recently I required a quick & simple way to feed arbitrary images or other visual files to the Tesseract OCR engine from a PHP runtime environment. So I created this PHP sample project for myself and for anybody else who might find this somehow useful.
Happy Coding!
- PHP 7.4+
- Composer
- Tesseract OCR, with
englanguage support andscript-latn(Latin) installed.
- Clone the repository
- Run
composer installin a terminal session within the root folder. - Execute the OCR engine by running
php src/main.phpalso from the root folder.
Feel free to add or remove files as you may see fit.
The MIT License (MIT). Please see the License File for more information.
NOTE: This software depends on other packages that may be licensed under different open source licenses.