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ddeboer/tesseract
=================

A wrapper for the Tesseract OCR engine

1.1(12y ago)23135.1k↓27.1%6[1 PRs](https://github.com/ddeboer/tesseract/pulls)MITPHP

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Tesseract: a wrapper for the Tesseract OCR engine
=================================================

[](#tesseract-a-wrapper-for-the-tesseract-ocr-engine)

A small PHP >=5.3 library that makes working with the open source [Tesseract OCR engine](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr)easier.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You need a working Tesseract installation. For more information about installation and adding language support, see Tesseract’s [README](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/README.md).

Then install this library, which is available on [Packagist](http://packagist.org/packages/ddeboer/tesseract), through [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/):

```
$ composer require ddeboer/tesseract:1.0

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

If the `tesseract` binary is in your path, just do:

```
use Ddeboer\Tesseract\Tesseract;

$tesseract = new Tesseract();
```

Otherwise, construct Tesseract with the path to the binary:

```
$tesseract = new Tesseract('/usr/local/bin/tesseract');
```

Get version and supported languages information:

```
$version = $tesseract->getVersion();

$languages = $tesseract->getSupportedLanguages();
```

Perform OCR on an image file:

```
$text = $tesseract->recognize('myfile.tif');
```

Optionally, specify the language(s) as second argument:

```
$text = $tesseract->recognize('myfile.tif', array('nld', 'eng'));
```

And specify Tesseract’s page seg mode as third argument:

```
$text = $tesseract->recognize('myfile.tif', null, Tesseract::PAGE_SEG_MODE_AUTOMATIC_OSD);
```

###  Health Score

39

—

LowBetter than 86% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity41

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 94.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~75 days

Total

2

Last Release

4709d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

ocrphptesseractOCRtext recognitionscanoptical character recognition

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