It is a image ocr tool using the Tesseract-OCR engine with the pytesseract package and has a GUI.

Last update: Jul 11, 2022

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Overview

OCR-Tool

It is a image ocr tool made in Python using the Tesseract-OCR engine with the pytesseract package and has a GUI. This is my second ever python project so feel free to make any suggestions

Release

To install it, extract the zip that you downloaded. Put it in a folder like program files. There is a file called OCR-Tool.exe. You could make a shortcut and put it on your desktop for easy access.
Windows might say it's dangerous to run and block it. Just click "more info" and there you can run it.
If you download the version without tesseract included please check the dependencies section for instructions on how to add it.

Version 1.1

With tesseract

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EMS8cKsasorLRXpqVjLxo41nsAEk4SiF/view?usp=sharing

Without tesseract

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O4EYF9EmawT0VRSM6U1XkDBndGQBxDRe/view?usp=sharing

Features

Modern GUI
Snipping tool (Credit to harupy's python snipping tool)
Open image from folder
Paste image from clipboard
Save text to .txt
Copy text to clipboard
Cancel snip

Dependencies

Tesseract OCR Engine (UB Mannheim). Install either version 4 or 5. 5 is recommended as it performs better. Look for the installlation folder, the default is program files. Copy it into the same folder as main.py and rename the folder to "tesseract"
Pytesseract
PyQt5

Known bugs

Copy text button crashes app
White text doesnt work well

Future features

Better preprocessing to help with weird backgrounds
Document ocr
Menu

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