📸 Telegram Image-to-Text OCR Bot

This is a Telegram Bot that extracts text from images using pytesseract (Tesseract OCR) and the Python Telegram API. Users can send an image to the bot, and it will respond with the extracted text from the image.

✨ Features

• Image-to-text conversion: Use pytesseract to convert images into text.
• Error handling: Catches and logs errors during image processing.
• Instant response: Quickly processes images and returns extracted text via Telegram.

🚀 Getting Started

Follow these steps to set up and run the bot locally.

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/XredaX/Xtract-Text
cd Xtract-Text

2. Install dependencies

Make sure you have Python and the necessary libraries installed. Run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install Tesseract

Ensure that Tesseract is installed on your machine. You can install it via:

Linux:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr

Make sure to set the TESSDATA_PREFIX to point to your Tesseract data files (typically for language support).

4. Set environment variables

You need to set two environment variables for the bot to work:

• BOT_TOKEN: Your Telegram bot token.
• TESSDATA_PREFIX: Path to the Tesseract data directory.

You can set these in your terminal or use a .env file.

For terminal:

export BOT_TOKEN="your_telegram_bot_token"
export TESSDATA_PREFIX="/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata"

For .env file (create this in the root directory):

BOT_TOKEN=your_telegram_bot_token
TESSDATA_PREFIX=/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata

5. Run the bot

After setting the environment variables, you can run the bot:

python bot.py

The bot will now be up and running. Send an image to the bot in Telegram, and it will reply with the extracted text.

Example Commands

• /start: Starts the bot and welcomes the user.
• Send an image: The bot will reply with the extracted text from the image.

🤝 Contributing

Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests for improvements!