Texrec

A program that performs text recognition from image.

Features

• Extract text from image and display it on screen.
• Write the recognized text to a file.
• Make a text recognizable pdf from image.

Tech details

• Language - C++
• Library - Tesseract (An OCR engine by Google)

Setup

• You need to install tesseract to run this program. For installation instruction refer this.

• Clone repository

• Compile texrec.cpp with following flags : g++ -o texrec texrec.cpp -ltesseract -llept

• Run texrec