Extract text from image

It extracts the text in a image and returns the text extracted.

Requeriments

1. tesseract-ocr

To install it you have following options:

• Ubuntu/Debian:

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install tesseract-ocr -y

• MacOs(with Homebrew):

$ brew install tesseract

2. Validate your language is available with following command:

$ tesseract --list-langs

3. If missing your language, you can install it with following command:

• Ubuntu/Debian:

$ sudo apt install tesseract-ocr-spa

• MacOs(with Homebrew):

$ brew install tesseract-lang

4. Install bundler gem

$ gem install bundler

How to install the project?

To install this project, you can run following command:

$ bundle install

How to run the project?

You can run the project with following command:

$ ruby app.rb

Sources and bibliography

1. Recognize text from an image in Ruby
2. Tesseract documentation
3. Languages supported by tesseract