Hello list,

As I'm looking at a way to automate the search of documents in my humble administration, I read some articles about OCR. I came along an article about using Python with Tesseract, to transform an scan of a document into text, that is searchable.

My question now is if I can do something similar with Squeak. To my inexperienced eye, it seems like I should use FFI to call the functions in the Tesseract API, but this API is in  C++, and I don't know if it is possible to use FFI to call C++ functions?

Or should I forget the API and use OSProcess to start the tesseract program?

Could anyone point me in the right direction, or just tell  if the whole idea is insane?

But if it can be done in Python....

Thanks in advance,

Edwin Ancaer.