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

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To run his command line command tesseract test.jpg result hocr in a python script:

from subprocess import check_call

tesseractParams = ['tesseract', 'test.jpg', 'result', 'hocr']
check_call(tesseractParams)