A simple, Pillow-friendly, wrapper around the tesseract-ocr API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

tesserocr integrates directly with Tesseract's C++ API using Cython which allows for a simple Pythonic and easy-to-read source code. It enables real concurrent execution when used with Python's threading module by releasing the GIL while processing an image in tesseract.

tesserocr is designed to be Pillow-friendly but can also be used with image files instead.

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.