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About ocr

An OCR skill that extracts text from local images or image URLs using Tesseract. It supports multiple languages, optional preprocessing, and text or JSON output with confidence scores.

Key features

  1. 01OCR for common image formats
  2. 02Support for 100+ languages
  3. 03Optional grayscale and threshold preprocessing
  4. 04Text or JSON output with confidence scores

Use cases

  1. 01Extracting text from scanned images
  2. 02Reading text from an image URL
  3. 03Saving multilingual OCR results as text or JSON

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/trpc-group/trpc-agent-go --skill ocr

After installing, type/ocrin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Bundled filesscripts/ocr_url.pyscripts/ocr.py

Details

From the project README

OCR Image Text Extraction Skill

Extract text from images using Tesseract OCR engine.

Capabilities

  • Extract text from image files (PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF)
  • Support for 100+ languages
  • Optional image preprocessing for better accuracy
  • Output in plain text or JSON format with confidence scores

Usage

Basic OCR
python3 scripts/ocr.py <image_file> <output_file>
With Options
# Specify language (default: eng)
python3 scripts/ocr.py image.png text.txt --lang eng

# Chinese text
python3 scripts/ocr.py image.png text.txt --lang chi_sim

# Multiple languages
python3 scripts/ocr.py image.png text.txt --lang eng+chi_sim

# With image preprocessing (improves accuracy)
python3 scripts/ocr.py image.png text.txt --preprocess

# JSON output with confidence scores
python3 scripts/ocr.py image.png output.json --format json
Download and OCR from URL
# OCR from remote image
python3 scripts/ocr_url.py <image_url> <output_file>

# With options
python3 scripts/ocr_url.py https://example.com/image.jpg text.txt --lang eng --preprocess

Parameters

  • image_file / image_url (required): Path to local image or image URL
  • output_file (required): Path to output text/JSON file
  • --lang: Language code (e.g., eng, chi_sim, jpn, fra, deu). Default: eng
  • --preprocess: Apply image preprocessing (grayscale, thresholding) for better accuracy
  • --format: Output format (text/json, default: text)

Common Languages

LanguageCode
Englisheng
Chinese (Simplified)chi_sim
Chinese (Traditional)chi_tra
Japanesejpn
Koreankor
Frenchfra
Germandeu
Spanishspa
Russianrus
Arabicara

Supported Image Formats

PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, WEBP

Dependencies

  • Python 3.8+
  • pytesseract
  • Pillow (PIL)
  • tesseract-ocr (system package)

Installation

# Python packages
pip install pytesseract Pillow

# Tesseract OCR engine
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr  # Ubuntu/Debian
sudo yum install tesseract           # CentOS/RHEL
brew install tesseract               # macOS

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