Code Breakdown
from PIL import Image
from pytesseract import *
from io import BytesIO
import requests
import discord
from discord.ext import commands, tasks
These lines of code import packages and modules required. discord and discord.ext is API wrapper for discord. It’s basically essential for this project. io is required to sending attachment (images, videos, etc). request to make GET request to load image. PIL to read image and pytesseract to use the tesseract app
pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\\Program Files\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe'
client = commands.Bot(command_prefix='.')
The first line is to setting the path to the Tesseract OCR engine executable file. The next line instantiate the bot
@client.event
async def on_ready():
print('{0.user} is on'.format(client))
change_status.start()
These lines of code prints the bot name and discriminator and runs a function to change the bot activity presence
@client.event
async def on_message(message):
link = message.attachments[0]
response = requests.get(link)
img = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))
output = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
await message.channel.send(output)
These lines of code take any image that user send and do the OCR using tesseract. Then sending the ouput to the channel
client.run ("token")
This runs the bot