Tesseract and Php ocr

Question

I want to convert a large number of image files to text using Tesseract.

I looked through their documentation, but I don’t know how this relates to PHP and how my php script will interact with tesseract ocr. I have seen on other issues that suggest php exec () might be like this.

$img = myimage.png;
$text = exec($img,'tesseract');

I downloaded and installed tesseract. Using Windows 7 with xampp installed. I have a newbie for intermediate php knowledge. What knowledge do I lack?

Update Now I have work with powershell and cmd with

tesseract.exe D:\Documents\Web_Development\Sandbox\php\images\23.png D:\Documents\Web_Development\Sandbox\php\images\23

But when I try to run it through exec as follows:

<?php 
exec('tesseract.exe D:\Documents\Web_Development\Sandbox\images\23.png D:\Documents\Web_Development\Sandbox\images\23');
?>

I get a popup from windows that says tesseract.exe stops working. here is the error information if they mean anything to anyone.

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   BEX
  Application Name: tesseract.exe
  Application Version:  0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:    4ca507b3
  Fault Module Name:    MSVCR90.dll
  Fault Module Version: 9.0.30729.4926
  Fault Module Timestamp:   4a1743c1
  Exception Offset: 0002f93e
  Exception Code:   c0000417
  Exception Data:   00000000
  OS Version:   6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
  Locale ID:    1033
  Additional Information 1: e958
  Additional Information 2: e95831f9d00a16a326250da660e931c5
  Additional Information 3: 040a
  Additional Information 4: 040a259d27c5ccf749ee18722d5fbec0

Answer 1

PHP, .. ms CLI ( ms-dos). , CLI PHP, CLI - http://ch2.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

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