Welcome to your ImagePlay! A Ruby gem to extract text from images. ImagePlay uses Rtesseract and MiniMagick to extract text from images. ImagePlay requires Imagemagick and Tesseract to be installed on your system.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'image_play'And then execute:
$ bundle install
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install image_play
You can provide an image or a image url as input to the function.
text = ImagePlay::Image.extract('input_path')
The extracted text will be returned to you.
This works best for images with white text on it. The image is processed using minimagick before extracting text using rtesseract. I'm trying to increase the accuracy and the ability to extract text with non-white colors.
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/bijoysijo/image_play.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.