react-native-tesseract-ocr

Tesseract OCR wrapper for React Native


Keywords
react-native, tesseract ocr, optical character recognition, cognitive services, text recognizer, android, ocr, tesseract, text-recognition, tesseract-ocr, text-detection, optical-character-recognition, text-detector
License
MIT
Install
npm install react-native-tesseract-ocr@2.0.3

Documentation

react-native-tesseract-ocr 👀

react-native-tesseract-ocr is a react-native wrapper for Tesseract OCR

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This project uses:

NOTE: It is recommended to use react-native >= 0.60.0

Getting started

$ npm i react-native-tesseract-ocr --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-tesseract-ocr

Example

Showcase Android using Picker Showcase Android using Camera

Check the example by yourself here

Usage

tessOptions

Property Type Description
allowlist string List of characters you want to recognize
denylist string List of characters you DON'T want to recognize
level Level Level of the tokens of the page hierarchy (only used in recognizeTokens)

Level can be one of the following values 'symbol' | 'block' | 'line' | 'paragraph' | 'word'

recognize

import TesseractOcr, { LANG_ENGLISH } from 'react-native-tesseract-ocr';

const tessOptions = {};
TesseractOcr.recognize(imageSource, LANG_ENGLISH, tessOptions);

recognizeTokens

import TesseractOcr, { LANG_ENGLISH, LEVEL_WORD } from 'react-native-tesseract-ocr';

const tessOptions = { level: LEVEL_WORD };
TesseractOcr.recognizeTokens(imageSource, LANG_ENGLISH, tessOptions);

useEventListener

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { useEventListener } from 'react-native-tesseract-ocr';

function App() {
  const [progress, setProgress] = useState(0);
  useEventListener('onProgressChange', (p) => {
    setProgress(p.percent / 100);
  });

  // return ...
}

Contributing

How to contribute?

This is a commitizen friendly repository, so instead of creating commits using git commit, please use our custom CLI by running:

$ npm run cz

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):


Jonathan Palma

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Johan Runsten

💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

License

MIT © jonathanpalma

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