Go Tesseract

Image to text converter with Tesseract OCR.

Note: This program will run on only Linux distributions. First of all, you have to install Tesseract OCR on your device.

Arch Linux

# pacman -S tesseract tesseract-data-eng

Build

Use Go compiler to build executable.

$ go build

Usage

There are 3 flags you can use.

-i Input file or directory
-o Output file
-l Tesseract OCR language (Default value is "eng")

Examples

Convert single image to text.

$ go-tesseract -i path/to/input.jpg -o output.txt

Convert multiple images in directory to text.

$ go-tesseract -i /path/to/directory/ -o output.txt

Convert single image to text using multiple languages.

$ go-tesseract -i path/to/input.jpg -o output.txt -l eng sin