nimtesseract
A wrapper to Tesseract OCR library for Nim
Wraps a native library — check OS Compatibility below for platform-specific linking notes.
Summary
| Latest Version | Unknown |
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| License | Unlicense |
| CI Status | Failing |
| Downloads | 0 |
| Last Indexed | 2026-07-21 05:25 |
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Installation
nimble install nimtesseract
choosenim install nimtesseract
git clone https://github.com/DavideGalilei/nimtesseract
OS Compatibility
| Platform | Linux | macOS | Windows | FreeBSD | OpenBSD | NetBSD | Android | iOS | WASM | Embedded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nimtesseract | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Source
| Repository | https://github.com/DavideGalilei/nimtesseract |
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| Homepage | https://github.com/DavideGalilei/nimtesseract |
| Registry Source | nimble_official |
README
Nim Tesseract 👑👁
Nim Tesseract is a Nim wrapper for the Tesseract OCR library, via its dynamic library.
Installation 👇
$ nimble install nimtesseract
Usage 🌷
- Install (lib)tesseract via your package manager or put the tesseract so/dll/dylib file in the project directory E.g. for Arch Linux:
$ pacman -Sy tesseract
for macOS:
$ brew install tesseract
- Download trained data from https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata or https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_fast
- Done ✅
Example 🤔
import nimtesseract
echo imageToText("file.png")
More examples in the examples folder
Development 🔩
Download trained data and put it into src folder
⚠️ Outdated, but still useful. Don't refer to this.
bash $ cd src $ TESSDATA_PREFIX=$(pwd) nim r -d:pixieUseStb nimtesseract.nim
Run tests with nimble:
$ nimble test
capi.h reference: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/main/include/tesseract/capi.h
Credits 👻
Inspired from https://github.com/Altabeh/tesseract-ocr-wrapper
License 📕
This project is under the Unlicense license.
This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.