#Some code from http://wiki.github.com/hoffstaetter/python-tesseract import codecs import os import subprocess import tempfile from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _ from django.contrib import messages from common.conf.settings import TEMPORARY_DIRECTORY from documents.models import Document from converter.api import convert_document_for_ocr from ocr.conf.settings import TESSERACT_PATH from ocr.conf.settings import TESSERACT_LANGUAGE class TesseractError(Exception): pass def cleanup(filename): ''' tries to remove the given filename. Ignores non-existent files ''' try: os.remove(filename) except OSError: pass def run_tesseract(input_filename, output_filename_base, lang=None): command = [TESSERACT_PATH, input_filename, output_filename_base] if lang is not None: command += ['-l', lang] proc = subprocess.Popen(command, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) return_code = proc.wait() if return_code != 0: error_text = proc.stderr.read() raise TesseractError(error_text) def do_document_ocr(document): for page_index, document_page in enumerate(document.documentpage_set.all()): imagefile = convert_document_for_ocr(document, page=page_index) desc, filepath = tempfile.mkstemp() try: run_tesseract(imagefile, filepath, TESSERACT_LANGUAGE) ocr_output = os.extsep.join([filepath, 'txt']) f = codecs.open(ocr_output, 'r', 'utf-8') document_page = document.documentpage_set.get(page_number=page_index+1) document_page.content = f.read().strip() document_page.page_label = _(u'Text from OCR') document_page.save() f.close() cleanup(ocr_output) except TesseractError, e: cleanup(filepath) cleanup(imagefile) raise TesseractError(e) finally: cleanup(filepath) cleanup(imagefile)