A wrapper to work with Tesseract OCR inside PHP via CLI and/or FFI interfaces.

‼️ Tested only on FreeBSD, Debian and Ubuntu platforms with Tesseract OCR version 3 and 4 (see build logs).

Installation

Via Composer:

$ composer require bicycle/tesseract-bridge

Usage

Basic usage

• CLI ```php use Bicycle\Tesseract\Bridge as TesseractBridge;

  $configuration = TesseractBridge\Configuration(['binary_path' => 'tesseract']);
  $bridge = new TesseractBridge\CLI($configuration);
  echo $bridge->testGetVersion();
  print_r($bridge->getAvailableLanguages());
  echo $bridge->recognizeFromFile('eurotext.png'); // Set proper path here
  ```
  

• FFI ```php use Bicycle\Tesseract\Bridge as TesseractBridge;

  $configuration = TesseractBridge\Configuration(['binary_path' => 'tesseract']);
  $bridge = new TesseractBridge\FFI($configuration);
  echo $bridge->testGetVersion();
  print_r($bridge->getAvailableLanguages());
  echo $bridge->recognizeFromFile('eurotext.png'); // Set proper path here
  ```
  

With languages

• CLI ```php use Bicycle\Tesseract\Bridge as TesseractBridge;

  $configuration = TesseractBridge\Configuration(['binary_path' => 'tesseract']);
  $bridge = new TesseractBridge\CLI($configuration);
  echo $bridge->testGetVersion();
  print_r($bridge->getAvailableLanguages());
  echo $bridge->recognizeFromFile('eurotext.png', ['deu']); // Set proper path here
  ```
  

• FFI ```php use Bicycle\Tesseract\Bridge as TesseractBridge;

  $configuration = TesseractBridge\Configuration(['binary_path' => 'tesseract']);
  $bridge = new TesseractBridge\FFI($configuration);
  echo $bridge->testGetVersion();
  print_r($bridge->getAvailableLanguages());
  echo $bridge->recognizeFromFile('eurotext.png', ['deu']); // Set proper path here
  ```
  

How to contribute

You can contribute to this project by:

• Opening an Issue if you found a bug or wish to propose a new feature;
• Opening PR if you want to improve/create/fix something

Additional

Please check our FAQ

License

tesseract-bridge is released under the MIT License.