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#include "ocr.h"


int TessRecognizePix (Pix *image,
                      const char *lang, const char *datapath, bool tsvOutput, char *&outText, 
                      char *error_code, char *error_message) {

  tesseract::TessBaseAPI *api = new tesseract::TessBaseAPI();

  int failed = api->Init(datapath, lang);
  if (failed != 0) {
    pixDestroy(&image);

    const char *code = "ERR_INIT_TESSER";
    const char *message = "Could not initialize tesseract.";
    strcpy(error_code, code);
    strcpy(error_message, message);

    return failed;
  }

  api->SetImage(image);
  pixDestroy(&image);

  // Get OCR result
  if(tsvOutput){
    outText = api->GetTSVText(0);
  } else {
    outText = api->GetUTF8Text();
  }

  // Destroy used object and release memory
  api->End();

  return 0;
}