How to get bounding boxes for text in images.

[Somesh Kumar]

Hi

I have used tesseract-ocr in my application and I am able to get the result(i.e extracting the text from image in form of multiple strings) using the wrapper 'pytesseract'.

For a requirement in the application, I need to draw bounding boxes around each word so that I could get the co-ordinates of each word or is there any possibility that i can get coordinates for the text in the image.

It could be a great help if any one can suggest me the correct way.

[Quan Nguyen]

Have you seen the API Examples?

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/APIExample

[Somesh Kumar]

Hi Quan Nguyen

Iam using python for extracting the text. The link that you have provided has the API Examples for C++. Can you provide any other resources for the api using python.

 I have tried with the wrappers for tesseract-OCR in python, but I was unable to get the co-ordinates.I am using Windows OS.