Tesseract integration for more languages

[pramjana]

Hi,

Hope you are doing well!

Is there a way you can harness the tesseract (which is already installed on my system - it just needs to run using a shortcut or be available via the menubar like your app) command line application, which can provide OCR output for many other languages?

Thank you for your consideration!

Best, Pramod

[melonamin]

It is quite a sizable feature to add, will require a lot of work.

What languages are you looking for specifically?

[pramjana]

Hmm, I didn't realize it would be a lot of work. I was thinking maybe run the tesseract command with the captured image (in the background), and display the result in your app like usual. I'm from India, and looking for OCR for Telugu, Hindi (this is just a parameter to pass to tesseract) This command for the Telugu language would be like:

tesseract input_image.png output_file -l tel

[melonamin]

Yeah, I understand, but I want TRex to be easy to use and work out of the box. I can't ask user to install additional tool on aside.

So to do it properly I need to take tessaract library and properly integrate it. Let me think about it a bit, there are a lot of potential users in India 😄

[melonamin]

@pramjana well, this took a bit longer than I wanted... 😅

Please try the beta build

[pramjana]

Hi @melonamin, it took me long enough to notice this feature was implemented! Sorry, I just noticed in the official build and missed the beta. Trying this out now! Thanks so much for implementing this feature!