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wangoviridans/tesseract\_ocr
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A wrapper to work with TesseractOCR inside your PHP scripts

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TesseractOCR for PHP
====================

[](#tesseractocr-for-php)

A wrapper to work with TesseractOCR inside your PHP scripts. Based on

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

[](#installation)

Via [composer](http://getcomposer.org/)([https://packagist.org/packages/wangoviridans/tesseract\_ocr](https://packagist.org/packages/wangoviridans/tesseract_ocr))

```
{
    "require": {
        "wangoviridans/tesseract_ocr": ">= 0.0.1"
    }
}

```

Or just clone and put somewhere inside your project folder.

```
$ cd myapp/vendor
$ git clone git://github.com/wangoviridans/tesseract-ocr-for-php.git

```

### Dependencies

[](#dependencies)

- [TesseractOCR](http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/)

**IMPORTANT**: Make sure that the `tesseract` binary is on your $PATH. If you're running PHP on a webserver, the user may be not you, but \_www or similar. If you need, there is always the possibility of modify your $PATH:

```
$path = getenv('PATH');
putenv("PATH=$path:/usr/local/bin");

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Basic usage

[](#basic-usage)

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