Japanese OCR in Python

Dependencies

• Python 3
• OpenCV >= 4
• Tesseract (see below)

Tesseract

• Install tesseract 4.0
• Download jpn_vert.traineddata here
• Copy jpn_vert.traineddata in /usr/share/tessdata
• Check with tesseract --list-langs that jpn_vert correctly appears

Archlinux

pacman -S opencv tesseract-ocr-git tesseract-data-jpn

Ubuntu / Mint

sudo apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-jpn-vert
sudo apt-get install -y python3-opencv

How to use

./main.py examples/sample_page.jpg

Followed by:

./main.py examples/sample_page.jpg --ocr