Source: python-tesserocr Section: python Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team Uploaders: Michael Fladischer , Build-Depends: cython3, debhelper (>= 12), dh-python, libleptonica-dev, libtesseract-dev, python3-all-dev, python3-pil, python3-setuptools, tesseract-ocr, Standards-Version: 4.3.0 Homepage: https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/ Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-tesserocr Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-tesserocr.git Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-python Package: python3-tesserocr Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, Description: Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API (Python3 version) A simple, Pillow-friendly, wrapper around the tesseract-ocr API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). . tesserocr integrates directly with Tesseract's C++ API using Cython which allows for a simple Pythonic and easy-to-read source code. It enables real concurrent execution when used with Python's threading module by releasing the GIL while processing an image in tesseract. . tesserocr is designed to be Pillow-friendly but can also be used with image files instead. . This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.