We made this because of how much we drool over the python opencv package (cv2), but we didn't want to write as much c++ (here's the relevant file in opencv: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/master/modules/python/...). The existing Tesseract wrappers in python are (to our knowledge), all CLI-based which puts a limit on what you can do with them and also potentially makes debugging and maintaining your code harder. Into that gap comes pybind11 and our wrapper, pysseract.

We think pysseract covers just about all the bases in terms of core functionality and are really proud to make it open to the world, so we hope you like it! If you have any comments, suggestions or pull requests, we're more than happy to chat.