joergpatz/tesseract repository overview

⁠Tesseract OCR

Docker container running tesseract-ocr⁠ as executable

Usage as executable and extract as txt file

• docker run --rm joergpatz/tesseract
• docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/tmp joergpatz/tesseract [-l lang] john3_16.png outputtext

Usage as executable and extract as HOCR⁠ file

• docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/tmp joergpatz/tesseract [-l lang] john3_16.png outputtext hocr

Usage inside the container

• docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/tmp -it --entrypoint /bin/bash joergpatz/tesseract
  • including imagemagick library for converting files, e.g. convert -density 300 foobar.pdf foobar.tif

Alias docker run command

• alias tesseract='docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/tmp joergpatz/tesseract'
• tesseract -l eng john3_16.png outputtext