Add support for Tesseract version 3.05.00
Created by: aszlig
This is a bit more involved, because Tesseract 3.05.00 comes not only with improvements but also with a few quirks we need to deal with.
The first quirk is that the order arguments of the tesseract
command now matters and the list of configurations has to be at the end of the command line. So we add a new attribute tesseract_flags
to the BaseBuilder
class that contains a list of all the flags to pass to tesseract
, the tesseract_configs
attribute however remains pretty much the same but now only really contains a list of configs instead of being mixed with flag arguments.
Another quirk has to do with Leptonica >= 1.74 which Tesseract 3.05.00 now requires. Leptonica has special handling of files that reside in /tmp
and assumes that it's an internal temporary file of Leptonica. In order to deal with it, we now run Tesseract in a temporary directory, which contains the input/output files and use the relative name of these files because Leptonica only searches for path names beginning with /tmp
.
Fortunately the last item we need to address is not really a quirk, but an API change. In Tesseract 3.05.00 there is now a new function called TessBaseAPIDetectOrientationScript()
, which doesn't fill the OSResults
object anymore but now allows to pass the values we're interested in directly by reference.
We need to use this new function because the old function TessBaseAPIDetectOS()
now always returns false
.
Ran the test suite successfully with Python 3.5 and both Tesseract 3.04.01 and 3.05.00 except the following tests, which also didn't succeed prior to this commit:
cuneiform:TestTxt.test_basic
cuneiform:TestTxt.test_european
cuneiform:TestTxt.test_french
cuneiform:TestWordBox.test_basic
cuneiform:TestWordBox.test_european
cuneiform:TestWordBox.test_french
libtesseract:TestBasicDoc.test_basic
libtesseract:TestDigitLineBox.test_digits
libtesseract:TestLineBox.test_japanese
libtesseract:TestTxt.test_japanese
libtesseract:TestWordBox.test_japanese
tesseract:TestDigitLineBox.test_digits
tesseract:TestTxt.test_japanese
The failure of these test cases is probably related to issue #52, but from looking at the failures it doesn't seem to be related to this change anyway.