tesserocr VS python-mss

Compare tesserocr vs python-mss and see what are their differences.

python-mss

An ultra fast cross-platform multiple screenshots module in pure Python using ctypes. (by BoboTiG)
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tesserocr python-mss
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14 days ago about 1 month ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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tesserocr

Posts with mentions or reviews of tesserocr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-08.
  • Optimizing ImageGrab and pytesseract
    3 projects | /r/learnpython | 8 May 2021
    If you’re after speed I’d recommend mss for screenshots/recording, and tesserocr instead of pytesseract (note in particular the OpenCV option.
  • Is pytesseract the only option for OCR in python?
    2 projects | /r/Python | 2 May 2021
    tesserocr is an actual binding to the tesseract library, and is better in practically every way than pytesseract (more efficient, more options for usage, doesn’t require saving images to disk before they can be processed, and more).
  • OCR with Python
    2 projects | /r/learnpython | 15 Apr 2021
    If you have an electronically created pdf (not scanned) and you’re just wanting to run OCR on embedded images then you’ll want a pdf library that can extract the figure images for you, and then you can use tesserocr to run OCR on those images.

python-mss

Posts with mentions or reviews of python-mss. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tesserocr and python-mss you can also consider the following projects:

doctr - docTR (Document Text Recognition) - a seamless, high-performing & accessible library for OCR-related tasks powered by Deep Learning.

PyGetWindow - A simple, cross-platform module for obtaining GUI information on applications' windows.

D3DShot - Extremely fast and robust screen capture on Windows with the Desktop Duplication API

EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

pytesseract - A Python wrapper for Google Tesseract

OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

pyscreenshot - Python screenshot library, replacement for the Pillow ImageGrab module on Linux.

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

Face Recognition - The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line

Kornia - Geometric Computer Vision Library for Spatial AI

Windows-10-Toast-Notifications - Python library to display Windows 10 Toast Notifications