#Some code from http://wiki.github.com/hoffstaetter/python-tesseract import os import subprocess import tempfile from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _ from documents.models import DocumentPage from common.conf.settings import TEMPORARY_DIRECTORY from converter.api import convert_document_for_ocr from ocr.conf.settings import TESSERACT_PATH def cleanup(filename): ''' tries to remove the given filename. Ignores non-existent files ''' try: os.remove(filename) except OSError: pass class TesseractError(Exception): def __init__(self, status, message): self.status = status self.message = message 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) return (proc.wait(), proc.stderr.read()) def ocr_document(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: status, error_string = run_tesseract(imagefile, filepath) if status: errors = get_errors(error_string) raise TesseractError(status, errors) finally: ocr_output = os.extsep.join([filepath, 'txt']) f = file(ocr_output) try: document_page, created = DocumentPage.objects.get_or_create(document=document, page_number=page_index+1) document_page.content = f.read().strip() document_page.page_label = _(u'Text from OCR') document_page.save() finally: f.close() cleanup(filepath) cleanup(ocr_output) cleanup(imagefile)