Tesseract + Python Stub for Python project night

ocr.py

# install tesseract per instructions for your os
# ubuntu: sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
# sudo pip install pytesseract
# sudo pip install python-Levenshtein
# sudo pip install fuzzywuzzy 
# load image(s) in working directory

import re
import pytesseract
import pillow
from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz  # https://stackoverflow.com/a/28467760
from dateutil import parser

text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('image.jpg'))
print(text)

# write a series of try except patterns with file manipulation until it can resolve 
# use pillow to "enhance"
# regex? to find company and total # https://regexr.com
# 
# search for vendor name, total and date
# 

# vendor_list = map(lambda x: x["name"], frappe.get_list("Supplier"))
# best_match = # reduce ? lambda x: fuzz.ratio(x