_, contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(dilation, cv2.RETR_TREE, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE) This ^ actually returns two arguments instead of three for me. Version differences? And please do not treat exceptions like you do - it was very hard to find out what happened because of crop() silently excepted without any signs, though leaving self.image unset, which lead to error in deskew() 'Page does not have member 'image'' Btw I managed to run the app after this commit

I tried sudo apt-get install python-pythonmagick and pip install to ensure doc2text import well. But even I successfully installed python-pythonmagick via apt, I still can not import doc2text.

I check the source package which python-pythonmagick installed via apt, it seems the packages can only support python2.

So could you help to fix the problem? I want to doc2text on python3 (Ubuntu)

PythonMagick is a required package for doc2text. I installed it through pip.

(doc2txt) ➜  Programs pip install PythonMagick
Collecting PythonMagick
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PythonMagick (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for PythonMagick

Anyone knows what's wrong with it...thanks.

This allow to initialize the Document class with a lang that will be passed to tesseract. (Giving tesseract a language sometimes greatly improve text extraction quality).

On ubuntu this requires to install the package tesseract-ocr-$lang$ where $lang$ is the 3 letter code for the language. On other OS, lang data for tesseract can be found at https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/langdata

I installed with pip install doc2text, then tried in an ipython shell to import doc2text. This gave error in init.py line 77 because of print statement with no parantheses.

hi there I am testing your product, however I am getting this type of error:

Error in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/doc2text/page.py on line 25 dst is not a numpy array, neither a scalar Error in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/doc2text/page.py on line 211 dst is not a numpy array, neither a scalar Error in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/doc2text/page.py on line 80 dst is not a numpy array, neither a scalar Traceback (most recent call last): File "example_doc2text.py", line 19, in doc.extract_text() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/doc2text/init.py", line 96, in extract_text text = new.extract_text() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/doc2text/page.py", line 46, in extract_text cv2.imwrite(temp_path, self.image) AttributeError: 'Page' object has no attribute 'image'

my test files is as follow:

> import doc2text
> 
> # Initialize the class.
> doc = doc2text.Document()
> 
> # You can pass the lang (as 3 letters code) to the class to improve accuracy
> # On ubuntu it requires the package tesseract-ocr-$lang$
> # On other OS, see https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/langdata
> doc = doc2text.Document(lang="eng")
> 
> # Read the file in. Currently accepts pdf, png, jpg, bmp, tiff.
> # If reading a PDF, doc2text will split the PDF into its component pages.
> doc.read('myfile.tiff')
> 
> # Crop the pages down to estimated text regions, deskew, and optimize for OCR.
> doc.process()
> 
> # Extract text from the pages.
> doc.extract_text()
> text = doc.get_text()
> print text

could you please help me? thanks a lot

When I try to pass the language as in the example:

doc = doc2text.Document(lang="por")

I received the following error message:

    doc = doc2text.Document(lang="por")
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'lang'

It avoids having opencv and opencv_contrib in working directory after installation. /tmp dir is cleared at boot time, but maybe we also want to manually remove the folders after installation.

Also, FYI your installation script also work with Ubuntu 14.04

When doing:

import doc2text
doc = doc2text.Document()
doc.read('something.pdf')
doc.process()
doc.extract_text()

I get the following error:

AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-57184997370d> in <module>()
----> 1 doc.extract_text()

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/doc2text/__init__.pyc in extract_text(self)
     89             for page in self.processed_pages:
     90                 new = page
---> 91                 text = new.extract_text()
     92                 self.page_content.append(text)
     93         else:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/doc2text/page.pyc in extract_text(self)
     36     def extract_text(self):
     37         temp_path = 'text_temp.png'
---> 38         cv2.imwrite(temp_path, self.image)
     39         self.text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(temp_path))
     40         os.remove(temp_path)

AttributeError: Page instance has no attribute 'image'

Fixes the following issue

import doc2text doc = doc2text.Document() doc.read('image.png') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/doc2text/init.py", line 67, in read self.file_basepath, self.file_basename + '_temp.png' AttributeError: Document instance has no attribute 'file_basename'

>>> import doc2text
>>> doc = doc2text.Document()
>>> doc.read('test.png')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/jwilk/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/doc2text/__init__.py", line 67, in read
    self.file_basepath, self.file_basename + '_temp.png'
AttributeError: Document instance has no attribute 'file_basename'

Tested with git master (41dca91dda625b11633df77e45401787ea5a55a5).

I'm having a flask app which gets the file from the api and want to get the text out of it , but i don't want to save it on the disk . Is there any way ? I'm trying to push the stream object so its giving me the error.

code : file = request.files['file'] file_data = file.stream.read()

error:

\venv\lib\site-packages\docx2txt\docx2txt.py", line 76, in process zipf = zipfile.ZipFile(docx) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\zipfile.py", line 1225, in init self._RealGetContents() File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\zipfile.py", line 1288, in _RealGetContents endrec = _EndRecData(fp) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\zipfile.py", line 259, in _EndRecData fpin.seek(0, 2) AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'seek'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
    import doc2text
  File "/Users/Stan/Downloads/doc2text-master/doc2text/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    import PyPDF2 as pyPdf
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyPDF2'

Seems library not 100% python3 compatible. When I'm tying to run simple code:

import doc2text

doc = doc2text.Document()
doc = doc2text.Document(lang="eng")
doc.read('pdf-sample.pdf')

I'm getting

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "doc2text_test.py", line 13, in <module>
    doc.read('pdf-sample.pdf')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/doc2text/__init__.py", line 44, in read
    for i in xrange(self.num_pages):
NameError: name 'xrange' is not defined

Thank you for this fantastic utility.

Text extraction is not successful for any png image with texts. The jpg and pdf works. Is this a known issue and will there be a fix..thanks.