tesseract-ocrHow can I use Tesseract OCR in a PHP project?

Tesseract OCR can be used in a PHP project by using the Tesseract-OCR-for-PHP package. This package provides a wrapper for the Tesseract OCR command line tool.

Example code

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR\TesseractOCR;

echo (new TesseractOCR('image.png'))->run();

Output example

Hello World

The code above will run the Tesseract OCR command line tool on the image image.png and output the recognized text.

The code consists of three parts:

1. require 'vendor/autoload.php';: This is used to include the autoloader generated by Composer, which is used to autoload the classes from the thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR namespace.

2. use thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR\TesseractOCR;: This is used to import the TesseractOCR class from the thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR namespace.

3. echo (new TesseractOCR('image.png'))->run();: This is used to create an instance of the TesseractOCR class with the given image path and run the OCR process. The recognized text is then outputted.

Helpful links

• Tesseract-OCR-for-PHP
• Tesseract OCR

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