This is a library for using the tesseract OCR in ruby applications
- Terreract
- ImageMagick - Note the command line program
convert
needs to be accessible to ruby - *nix based operating system
##Usage
Please Note the default language is english
tess = Tesseract::Process.new("photo.jpg")
tess.to_s
Config options are also supported
tess = Tesseract::Process.new("photo.jpg", {:lang => :fra, :tesseract_options => {:chop_enable => 0}})
tess.to_s