Python captcha solver

gistfile1.py

# apt-get install libjpeg-dev libpng-dev
# apt-get install tesseract-ocr libtesseract3
# apt-get install python-pip python-dev
# Or install pip with wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -> python get-pip.py
# /usr/local/bin/pip install pillow
# Download and unpack https://code.google.com/p/pytesser/
# edit pytesser.py and change "import Image" to "from PIL import Image"

from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageEnhance
from pytesser import *
from urllib import urlretrieve

def get(link):
    urlretrieve(link,'temp.png')

get('http://example.com/captcha.png');
im = Image.open("temp.png")
nx, ny = im.size
im2 = im.resize((int(nx*5), int(ny*5)), Image.BICUBIC)
im2.save("temp2.png")
enh = ImageEnhance.Contrast(im)
enh.enhance(1.3).show("30% more contrast")

imgx = Image.open('temp2.png')
imgx = imgx.convert("RGBA")
pix = imgx.load()
for y in xrange(imgx.size[1]):
    for x in xrange(imgx.size[0]):
        if pix[x, y] != (0, 0, 0, 255):
            pix[x, y] = (255, 255, 255, 255)
imgx.save("bw.gif", "GIF")
original = Image.open('bw.gif')
bg = original.resize((116, 56), Image.NEAREST)
ext = ".tif"
bg.save("input-NEAREST" + ext)
image = Image.open('input-NEAREST.tif')
print image_to_string(image)