Tesseract.tess_word_box · Tesseract.jl

Tesseract.tess_word_box — Function

tess_word_box(
    inst::TessInst,
    page::Integer = Int32(1)
)::Union{String, Nothing}

Create a UTF8 box file with WordStr strings, If there is an error 'nothing' is returned.

Arguments:

T	Name	Default	Description
R	inst		The Tesseract instance to call.
O	page	`Int32(1)`	The page to get the data for.

Details:

This method will call tess_recognize() if it has not been called yet for the image. The results are probably used for training.

Example:

using Tesseract

download_languages()

instance = TessInst()
pix = sample_pix()

tess_image(instance, pix)
tess_resolution(instance, 72)

box = tess_word_box(instance)

for line in split(box, '\n'; keepempty = false)[1:5]
    println(line)
end

# output

WordStr 11 577 417 591 0 #No one would have believed in the last years of the
    418 577 422 591 0
WordStr 11 557 457 571 0 #the nineteenth century that this world was being watched
    458 557 462 571 0
WordStr 10 537 457 551 0 #watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than

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