tesseract.js-utils/src/readImage.js

Utilities for tesseract.js

const bmp = require('bmp-js');
const fileType = require('file-type');

module.exports = (TessModule, iBuf, yres = 70) => {
  const buf = Buffer.from(iBuf);
  const type = fileType(buf);
  let bytesPerPixel = 0;
  let data = null;
  let pix = null;
  let w = 0;
  let h = 0;

  /*
   * Although leptonica should support reading bmp, there is a bug of "compressed BMP files".
   * As there is no solution, we need to use bmp-js for now.
   * @see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tesseract-ocr/4mPD9zTxdxE
   */
  if (type && type.mime === 'image/bmp') {
    const bmpBuf = bmp.decode(buf);
    data = TessModule._malloc(bmpBuf.data.length * Uint8Array.BYTES_PER_ELEMENT);
    TessModule.HEAPU8.set(bmpBuf.data, data);
    w = bmpBuf.width;
    h = bmpBuf.height;
    bytesPerPixel = 4;
  } else {
    const ptr = TessModule._malloc(buf.length * Uint8Array.BYTES_PER_ELEMENT);
    TessModule.HEAPU8.set(buf, ptr);
    pix = TessModule._pixReadMem(ptr, buf.length);
    if (TessModule.getValue(pix + (7 * 4), 'i32') === 0) {
      /*
       * Set a yres default value to prevent warning from tesseract
       * See kMinCredibleResolution in tesseract/src/ccstruct/publictypes.h
       */
      TessModule.setValue(pix + (7 * 4), yres, 'i32');
    }
    [w, h] = Array(2).fill(0)
      .map((v, idx) => (
        TessModule.getValue(pix + (idx * 4), 'i32')
      ));
  }

  return {
    w,
    h,
    bytesPerPixel,
    data,
    pix,
  };
};