Telegram bot. Turns your pic in to text.

A small but very useful program - assistant. Allows you to copy text from your screenshots or pictures.

Input - image as file! This was done for one purpose - if u send your pic as a photo, Telegram will compress the image, which makes text recognition difficult. This does not happen with files. So I used the magic library to check the mime type of the received document:

file = bot.get_file(message.document.file_id)
download_file = bot.download_file(file.file_path)

src = message.document.file_id

with open(src, 'wb') as f:
    f.write(download_file)
    check_format = magic.from_file(src, mime=True)
    

After this check, we will know exactly which file the user sent. And depending on the file type starts "reading" of picture, or error.

Output - message with text from your pic.

✅ For correct work on Windows system you need a Tesseract program. Download here, and pytesseract, Pillow libs.

✅ The tutorial I used to install Tesseract on my linux machine here.