Recognize Text in Image using Tesseract OCR and PHP

thiagoalessio/tesseract_ocr wrapper

1. Install Tesseract OCR on your system. Make sure that Tesseract is accessible from the command line:

tesseract --version

2. Add thiagoalessio/tesseract_ocr wrapper to composer.json file:

"require": {
    "thiagoalessio/tesseract_ocr": "^2.9"
}

3. Install library from the command line:

composer install

4. Recognize text in image using Tesseract OCR:

<?php

use thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR\TesseractOCR;

require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

$ocr = new TesseractOCR('test.png');
$text = $ocr->run();

echo $text;