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TheGreatCornholio
TheGreatCornholio

Reputation: 1485

PHP - read text from image with TesseractOCR

I'm using Windows Server 2016 64bit and installed TesseractOCR from here: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki the 64bit version tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-v5.0.0-alpha.20191030.exe

Then I installed the PHP Package: composer require thiagoalessio/tesseract_ocr

then included this first:

require_once('../vendor/autoload.php');
use thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR\TesseractOCR;

then tried the official way:

echo (new TesseractOCR('read.png'))
    ->run();

which gave me 500 error

so I guess it's for old PHP versions (mine is 7) so I looked up and found:

$tesseract = new TesseractOCR('read.png');
$text = $tesseract->recognize();
file_put_contents('soo.txt', $text);

soo.txt is geneated but empty

then I tried:

$ocr = new TesseractOCR("read.png");
$content = $ocr->run();
echo $content;

and this gave me 500 error again!

what's wrong with it??

Upvotes: 1

Views: 797

Answers (1)

Robert
Robert

Reputation: 11

Put this code in top off your script:

ini_set('display_errors', 1); 
ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1); 
error_reporting(E_ALL);

assuming you are not working in a live enviroment. This will show you details of the error and might give a hint what is wrong. If this is a live enviroment check the error logs. 500 error doesn't tell anyone a lot.

There is a good chance tessarect wasn't installed (correctly) on your server as this class depents on it, it will show an error. But thats just a wild guess without any error descriptions.

Upvotes: 1

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