OCR Suite

A tool for recognizing text in a video file and storing it in a SQLite3 database.

Installation

• Grab a binary from the releases page, or build it yourself.
• Download the Tesseract OCR data

Building

Requirements

• CMake
• A modern enough C++ compiler (with C++17 support)
• conan

Steps

1. Clone the repository

2. Make a build directory and cd into it

mkdir -p build/release && cd build/release

3. Install the dependencies

conan install ../.. --build=missing -s build_type=Release

4. Build the project

conan build ../..

You will find the orc-suite binary in the build directory.

Automating recognition

You can use the ocs-watcher helper script to run the OCR Suite on all video files in a directory. It will automatically detect when a new file is added and run the OCR Suite on it, as well as run OCR Suite periodically on all files in the directory, thus keeping the database up to date for a video file, currently being recorded.

Installation

Use pip to install the script:

pip install ./tools/ocs-watcher

Usage

You will need to pass the video files directory as well as the path to the ocr-suite binary to the script:

ocs-watcher -o ./bin/dir/ocr-suite -i ./movies/dir/ -t ./tesserarct/data/dir/ -f 10