Install python-pyocr by entering the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update sudo apt install python-pyocr
Description:
Python wrapper for OCR engines (Python 2)
PyOCR is an optical character recognition (OCR) tool wrapper for Python. That is, it helps using OCR tools from a Python program. . PyOCR can be used as a wrapper for google's Tesseract-OCR or Cuneiform. It can read all image types supported by Pillow, including jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, and others. It also support bounding box data. . This is the Python 2 version of the package.
Homepage: https://github.com/jflesch/pyocr
Version: 0.3.0-1
Section: universe/python