Python wrapper for OCR for pdf to text conversion

This little script depends upon tesseract, which depends upon Leptonica, which depends on....well, if you are interested in using this then you probably know. A good place to start is here: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Compiling

It also dependons on ImageMagick being installed, some of which overlap with Leptonica and tesseract. More here: https://www.imagemagick.org/script/advanced-unix-installation.php

You will also need to install wand into python. I like pip, but if you don't then there are other ways.

I built this because I could not find a simple, easy way to ocr a pdf and scrape the text. There are many out there, but for one reason another none worked right for me. They were either overbuilt or failed on data-type issues. Almost all of the others pipe the image object to a shell call of tesseract just like I do, but mine works across the platforms I've used it on.

You can also simply import the pdf_to_text function and reliably get text right back. You can set up watchdog to monitor a folder and pipe the text to a database. Enjoy.