catcha

Install

npm i --save catcha

catcha use tesseract-ocr and ImageMagick. Please make sure to have them installed.

Usage

import catcha from "catcha";

const settings = {
  transforms: [
    {key: 'resize', value: '240x100'},
    {key: 'colorspace', value: 'gray'},
    {key: 'negate'},
    {key: 'threshold', value: '12%'},
    {key: 'blur', value: '10 '},
    {key: 'threshold', value: '43%'},
    {key: 'negate'},
  ],
  digitOnly: true,
  deleteTemporaryImage: false,
};
const kitten = catcha(settings);
kitten('/tmp/path/to/image/.{tiff,png,jpg}')
  .then((text) => {
    console.log(text); // 314400
  });

Settings

• transforms: array of key and value for transforms. Will be passed verbatim to ImageMagick parameter.
• deleteTemporaryImage: default to true. Delete converted image via transforms settings.
• deleteSourceImage: default to false. Delete source image.
• resolveBeforeCleaning: default to true. Resolve immediately after OCR ran, without waiting cleaning finished.

TODO

• Accept more image processing libraries. OpenCV, etc.
• Added skewed image detection and auto-deskewing.
• Added training method where user input images and expected output then kitten will find the best tranforms settings.

Contributors

• Raabb Ajam
• pendiplp

License

MIT © Raabb Ajam