Pyocr doesn't recognize get_available_tools

Question

I'm using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyocr/0.1.2 for text recognition from images my script is as follows :

from PIL import Image
import sys
import pyocr
import pyocr.builders

tools = pyocr.get_available_tools()
if len(tools) == 0:
    print("No OCR tool found")
    sys.exit(1)
tool = tools[0]
print("Will use tool '%s'" % (tool.get_name()))

langs = tool.get_available_languages()
print("Available languages: %s" % ", ".join(langs))
lang = langs[0]
print("Will use lang '%s'" % (lang))

txt = tool.image_to_string(Image.open('http://www.domain.com/fr/i/3518721/phone'),
                           lang=lang,
                           builder=pyocr.builders.TextBuilder())
word_boxes = tool.image_to_string(Image.open('http://www.domain.com/fr/i/3518721/phone'),
                                  lang=lang,
                                  builder=pyocr.builders.WordBoxBuilder())
line_and_word_boxes = tool.image_to_string(
        Image.open('http://www.domain.com/fr/i/3518721/phone'), lang=lang,
        builder=pyocr.builders.LineBoxBuilder())

when I run the script i have this error message :

Traceback (most recent call last): File "./test.py", line 6, in tools = pyocr.get_available_tools() AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'get_available_tools'

What seems to be the problem officers?

Answer 1

Change your imports to look like this:

from PIL import Image
import sys
from pyocr import pyocr
from pyocr import builders

Now pyocr.get_available_tools() will work because you have imported the module. But pyocr.builders.WordBoxBuilder() wont work because builders is imported on its own namespace. You'd need to change them to builders.WordBoxBuilder() ditto for TextBuilder and LineBoxBuilder.