README.md

text-detector

native node module for scene text recognition using tesseract and openCV

text-detector is a native nodejs module for extracting text from real-life photographs and scenes.

How to use

var textDetector = require('text-detector');

// synchronous API

// detects text in the image at the given path.
var text = textDetector.getTextSync('/sample/path/to/a/file');

// skip the region detection
var text = textDetector.getTextSync('/sample/path/to/a/file', false);

// asynchronous API

// detects text in the image at the given path.
textDetector.getText('/sample/path/to/a/file', function (err, text) {
    // do something with the text here
});

// skip the region detection
textDetector.getText('/sample/path/to/a/file', true, function (err, text) {
    // do something with the text here
});