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This helps to extract text from images, very easily using tesseract engine

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# Text from Image This package helps you extract text from images. This works using the tesseract ocr engine. ## Installation ``` npm install --save text-from-image ``` ## Usage This gives a promise which can be used further for various uses ``` const ReadText = require('text-from-image') ReadText('./image.png').then(text => { console.log(text); }).catch(err => { console.log(err); }) ``` ## Please take care - Image can be Buffer, PNG, JPG, etc. - The clear the image the better. - You can use Sharp or other image processing library to modify image before sending it to the function ## Development /Issues For any issues found please create a pull request If you're interested in developing it please follow <a href="https://github.com/goyalabhi1305/tess-based-text-from-image">GitHub repo.</a>