uiucprescon.ocr

Wrapper around Google Tesseract for Python.

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Note

This package requires building of C/C++ extension modules for Python which needs to be built before it can be used. See instructions below on how to build.

Building

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or greater
• C/C++ compiler

Instructions

1. Install "build" package into your python environment

2. Run build command

   python -m build
   

This generates a whl and tar.gz file in the ./dist/ directory and can be used to install into your Python environment.

Building Portable Python Wheels For Mac

Since this package links to Tesseract library, to make sure that these files are generated in a portable manner and will run on other machines, please use the included shell script (contrib/build_mac_wheel.sh) provided to generate them.

./contrib/build_mac_wheel.sh .