Getting the bounding box of the recognized words using python-tesseract

Question

I am using python-tesseract to extract words from an image. This is a python wrapper for tesseract which is an OCR code.

I am using the following code for getting th

Answer 1

tesseract.GetBoxText() method returns the exact position of each character in an array.

Besides, there is a command line option tesseract test.jpg result hocr that will generate a result.html file with each recognized word's coordinates in it. But I'm not sure whether it can be called through python script.