tesseract_test.py

# apt-get install tesseract-ocr
# pip3 install Pillow, pytesseract
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
import os, sys
import pytesseract as t

def round_trip(text, font_size=32):
        font_filename = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf'
        font = ImageFont.truetype(font_filename, size=font_size)
        text_size = font.getsize(text)
        img_size = (text_size[0]+20, text_size[1]+20)
        img = Image.new("RGB", img_size, (255,255,255))
        draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
        draw.text( (10,10), text, fill=(0,0,0), font=font )
        return t.image_to_string(img)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    text = " ".join(sys.argv[1:]) or "Hello Tesseract!"
    print(round_trip(text))