#Optical Character Recognition (OCR) with PHP and Tesseract
A very simple example application to demonstrate how, using the open-source Tesseract application, one might integrate OCR using PHP.
To get up-and-running, I'd recommend you use Vagrant. A Vagrantfile
is provided, based on Homestead Improved.
##Quick Start
Add the following to your hosts file:
192.168.10.10 homestead.app
Set up the Virtual Machine using Vagrant:
vagrant up
SSH into the VM:
vagrant ssh
Install Tesseract:
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
Install the dependencies:
composer install
Visit the application in your browser:
http://homestead.app/
##Further Information
This application forms the basis of this article on Sitepoint.