{"id":409,"date":"2013-07-26T19:04:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T00:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2013-07-29T22:31:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T03:31:06","slug":"another-python-sip-wrapper-for-the-tesseract-ocr-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/26\/another-python-sip-wrapper-for-the-tesseract-ocr-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Python SIP wrapper for the tesseract OCR library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesseract is a pretty decent open source OCR engine that was developed by HP back in the day, but is now maintained as open source by Google. It has a C++ API that you can program to, and as you would expect there are a number of wrappers (of varying quality) that allow you to use libtesseract from Python. For various reasons, none of those fit my needs, so I created my own SIP-based wrapper instead. I will not be maintaining this as a format project, but if you want an apache licensed python wrapper, you can find the code on github. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/virtuald\/python-tesseract-sip\">GitHub repository for Python Tesseract SIP wrapper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesseract is a pretty decent open source OCR engine that was developed by HP back in the day, but is now maintained as open source by Google. It has a C++ API that you can program to, and as you would expect there are a number of wrappers (of varying quality) that allow you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}