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James R. Barlow 08e40f96e8 Surface Tesseract config errors instead of FileNotFoundError
When Tesseract cannot find its 'hocr' or 'txt' config files in the
tessdata configs/ directory, it prints "read_params_file: Can't open"
warnings, exits 0, and produces no output. OCRmyPDF then crashed with a
confusing FileNotFoundError on the missing hOCR file (issue #1687).

Promote read_params_file warnings to TesseractConfigError with guidance
on the likely cause, and verify the expected output file exists after
Tesseract claims success as defense-in-depth for other silent-failure
modes.
2026-05-25 01:45:45 -07:00

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 James R. Barlow
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
"""Interface to Tesseract executable."""
from __future__ import annotations
import logging
import os
import re
from contextlib import suppress
from enum import IntEnum
from math import pi
from os import fspath
from pathlib import Path
from subprocess import PIPE, STDOUT, CalledProcessError, TimeoutExpired
from packaging.version import Version
from ocrmypdf._exec._probe import ToolProbe
from ocrmypdf.exceptions import (
MissingDependencyError,
SubprocessOutputError,
TesseractConfigError,
)
from ocrmypdf.pluginspec import OrientationConfidence
from ocrmypdf.subprocess import run
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
def _tesseract_env(omp_thread_limit: int | None) -> dict[str, str] | None:
"""Create environment dict with OMP_THREAD_LIMIT set for Tesseract subprocesses."""
if omp_thread_limit is None:
return None
env = os.environ.copy()
env['OMP_THREAD_LIMIT'] = str(omp_thread_limit)
return env
class ThresholdingMethod(IntEnum):
"""Tesseract thresholding methods for image binarization."""
AUTO = 0
OTSU = 0 # Alias for AUTO - uses Tesseract's default (legacy Otsu)
ADAPTIVE_OTSU = 1
SAUVOLA = 2
# Legacy dictionary for backward compatibility
TESSERACT_THRESHOLDING_METHODS: dict[str, int] = {
'auto': ThresholdingMethod.AUTO,
'otsu': ThresholdingMethod.OTSU,
'adaptive-otsu': ThresholdingMethod.ADAPTIVE_OTSU,
'sauvola': ThresholdingMethod.SAUVOLA,
}
class TesseractLoggerAdapter(logging.LoggerAdapter):
"""Prepend [tesseract] to messages emitted from tesseract."""
def process(self, msg, kwargs):
kwargs['extra'] = self.extra
return f'[tesseract] {msg}', kwargs
TESSERACT_VERSION_PATTERN = r"""
v?
(?:
(?:(?P<epoch>[0-9]+)!)? # epoch
(?P<release>[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)*) # release segment
(?P<pre> # pre-release
[-_\.]?
(?P<pre_l>(a|b|c|rc|alpha|beta|pre|preview))
[-_\.]?
(?P<pre_n>[0-9]+)?
)?
(?P<post> # post release
(?:-(?P<post_n1>[0-9]+))
|
(?:
[-_\.]?
(?P<post_l>post|rev|r)
[-_\.]?
(?P<post_n2>[0-9]+)?
)
)?
(?P<dev> # dev release
[-_\.]?
(?P<dev_l>dev)
[-_\.]?
(?P<dev_n>[0-9]+)?
)?
(?P<date>
[-_\.]
(?:20[0-9][0-9] [0-1][0-9] [0-3][0-9]) # yyyy mm dd
)?
(?P<gitcount>
[-_\.]?
[0-9]+
)?
(?P<gitcommit>
[-_\.]?
g[0-9a-f]{2,10}
)?
)
(?:\+(?P<local>[a-z0-9]+(?:[-_\.][a-z0-9]+)*))? # local version
"""
class TesseractVersion(Version):
"""Modify standard packaging.Version regex to support Tesseract idiosyncrasies."""
_regex = re.compile(
r"^\s*" + TESSERACT_VERSION_PATTERN + r"\s*$", re.VERBOSE | re.IGNORECASE
)
PROBE = ToolProbe(
program='tesseract',
version_regex=r'tesseract\s(.+)',
version_cls=TesseractVersion,
)
version = PROBE.version
available = PROBE.available
def has_thresholding() -> bool:
"""Does Tesseract have -c thresholding method capability?"""
return version() >= Version('5.0')
def get_languages() -> set[str]:
def lang_error(output):
msg = (
"Tesseract failed to report available languages.\n"
"Output from Tesseract:\n"
"-----------\n"
)
msg += output
return msg
args_tess = ['tesseract', '--list-langs']
try:
proc = run(
args_tess,
text=True,
stdout=PIPE,
stderr=STDOUT,
logs_errors_to_stdout=True,
check=True,
)
output = proc.stdout
except CalledProcessError as e:
raise MissingDependencyError(lang_error(e.output)) from e
for line in output.splitlines():
if line.startswith('Error'):
raise MissingDependencyError(lang_error(output))
_header, *rest = output.splitlines()
return {lang.strip() for lang in rest}
def tess_base_args(langs: list[str], engine_mode: int | None) -> list[str]:
args = ['tesseract']
if langs:
args.extend(['-l', '+'.join(langs)])
if engine_mode is not None:
args.extend(['--oem', str(engine_mode)])
return args
def _parse_tesseract_output(binary_output: bytes) -> dict[str, str]:
def gen():
for line in binary_output.decode().splitlines():
line = line.strip()
parts = line.split(':', maxsplit=2)
if len(parts) == 2:
yield parts[0].strip(), parts[1].strip()
return dict(gen())
def get_orientation(
input_file: Path,
engine_mode: int | None,
timeout: float,
omp_thread_limit: int | None = None,
) -> OrientationConfidence:
args_tesseract = tess_base_args(['osd'], engine_mode) + [
'--psm',
'0',
fspath(input_file),
'stdout',
]
try:
p = run(
args_tesseract,
stdout=PIPE,
stderr=STDOUT,
timeout=timeout,
check=True,
env=_tesseract_env(omp_thread_limit),
)
except TimeoutExpired:
return OrientationConfidence(angle=0, confidence=0.0)
except CalledProcessError as e:
tesseract_log_output(e.stdout)
tesseract_log_output(e.stderr)
# Check both stdout (e.output) and stderr for known non-fatal messages
all_output = (e.output or b'') + (e.stderr or b'')
if (
b'Too few characters. Skipping this page' in all_output
or b'Image too large' in all_output
):
return OrientationConfidence(0, 0)
raise SubprocessOutputError() from e
osd = _parse_tesseract_output(p.stdout)
angle = int(osd.get('Orientation in degrees', 0))
orient_conf = OrientationConfidence(
angle=angle, confidence=float(osd.get('Orientation confidence', 0))
)
return orient_conf
def _is_empty_page_error(exc):
if b'Empty page!!' in exc.output: # Tesseract 4.x
return True
return exc.returncode == 1 and (
# Tesseract 5.0-5.4 or so
exc.output == b''
# Tesseract 5.5+
or exc.output.startswith(b"Error in boxClipToRectangle: box outside rectangle")
)
def get_deskew(
input_file: Path,
languages: list[str],
engine_mode: int | None,
timeout: float,
omp_thread_limit: int | None = None,
) -> float:
"""Gets angle to deskew this page, in degrees."""
args_tesseract = tess_base_args(languages, engine_mode) + [
'--psm',
'2',
fspath(input_file),
'stdout',
]
try:
p = run(
args_tesseract,
stdout=PIPE,
stderr=STDOUT,
timeout=timeout,
check=True,
env=_tesseract_env(omp_thread_limit),
)
except TimeoutExpired:
return 0.0
except CalledProcessError as e:
tesseract_log_output(e.stdout)
tesseract_log_output(e.stderr)
if _is_empty_page_error(e):
# Not enough info for a skew angle
return 0.0
raise SubprocessOutputError() from e
parsed = _parse_tesseract_output(p.stdout)
deskew_radians = float(parsed.get('Deskew angle', 0))
deskew_degrees = 180 / pi * deskew_radians
log.debug(f"Deskew angle: {deskew_degrees:.3f}")
return deskew_degrees
def tesseract_log_output(stream: bytes) -> None:
tlog = TesseractLoggerAdapter(
log,
extra=log.extra if hasattr(log, 'extra') else None, # type: ignore
)
if not stream:
return
try:
text = stream.decode()
except UnicodeDecodeError:
text = stream.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
lines = text.splitlines()
for line in lines:
if line.startswith(("Tesseract Open Source", "Warning in pixReadMem")):
continue
elif 'diacritics' in line:
tlog.warning("lots of diacritics - possibly poor OCR")
elif line.startswith('OSD: Weak margin'):
tlog.warning("unsure about page orientation")
elif 'Error in pixScanForForeground' in line:
pass # Appears to be spurious/problem with nonwhite borders
elif 'Error in boxClipToRectangle' in line:
pass # Always appears with pixScanForForeground message
elif 'parameter not found: ' in line.lower():
tlog.error(line.strip())
problem = line.split('found: ')[1]
raise TesseractConfigError(problem)
elif 'error' in line.lower() or 'exception' in line.lower():
tlog.error(line.strip())
elif 'warning' in line.lower():
tlog.warning(line.strip())
elif 'read_params_file' in line.lower():
tlog.error(line.strip())
# Tesseract emits "read_params_file: Can't open <name>" when it
# cannot locate a config file (e.g. 'hocr', 'txt') in its
# tessdata configs/ directory, then exits 0 without producing
# the requested output. Promote to a hard error so the user
# sees the root cause instead of a downstream FileNotFoundError.
if "Can't open" in line:
missing = line.split("Can't open", 1)[1].strip()
else:
missing = line.strip()
raise TesseractConfigError(
f"Tesseract cannot open its config file '{missing}'. "
"This usually means Tesseract is installed but its config "
"files are missing from the tessdata configs/ directory. "
"On Debian/Ubuntu, ensure the 'tesseract-ocr' package is "
"fully installed. If you set TESSDATA_PREFIX, verify its "
"configs/ subdirectory contains the required files."
)
else:
tlog.info(line.strip())
def page_timedout(timeout: float) -> None:
if timeout == 0:
return
log.warning("[tesseract] took too long to OCR - skipping")
def _generate_null_hocr(output_hocr: Path, output_text: Path, image: Path) -> None:
"""Produce an empty .hocr file.
Ensures page is the same size as the input image.
"""
output_hocr.write_text('', encoding='utf-8')
output_text.write_text('[skipped page]', encoding='utf-8')
def generate_hocr(
*,
input_file: Path,
output_hocr: Path,
output_text: Path,
languages: list[str],
engine_mode: int,
tessconfig: list[str],
timeout: float,
pagesegmode: int,
thresholding: ThresholdingMethod,
user_words,
user_patterns,
omp_thread_limit: int | None = None,
) -> None:
"""Generate a hOCR file, which must be converted to PDF."""
prefix = output_hocr.with_suffix('')
args_tesseract = tess_base_args(languages, engine_mode)
if pagesegmode is not None:
args_tesseract.extend(['--psm', str(pagesegmode)])
if thresholding != ThresholdingMethod.AUTO and has_thresholding():
args_tesseract.extend(['-c', f'thresholding_method={thresholding}'])
if user_words:
args_tesseract.extend(['--user-words', user_words])
if user_patterns:
args_tesseract.extend(['--user-patterns', user_patterns])
# Reminder: test suite tesseract test plugins will break after any changes
# to the number of order parameters here
args_tesseract.extend([fspath(input_file), fspath(prefix), 'hocr', 'txt'])
args_tesseract.extend(tessconfig)
try:
p = run(
args_tesseract,
stdout=PIPE,
stderr=STDOUT,
timeout=timeout,
check=True,
env=_tesseract_env(omp_thread_limit),
)
stdout = p.stdout
except TimeoutExpired:
# Generate a HOCR file with no recognized text if tesseract times out
# Temporary workaround to hocrTransform not being able to function if
# it does not have a valid hOCR file.
page_timedout(timeout)
_generate_null_hocr(output_hocr, output_text, input_file)
except CalledProcessError as e:
tesseract_log_output(e.output)
if b'Image too large' in e.output or b'Empty page!!' in e.output:
_generate_null_hocr(output_hocr, output_text, input_file)
return
raise SubprocessOutputError() from e
else:
tesseract_log_output(stdout)
if not output_hocr.exists():
raise SubprocessOutputError(
"Tesseract exited successfully but did not produce the "
f"expected hOCR output at {output_hocr}. Tesseract output:\n"
+ (stdout.decode(errors='replace') if stdout else '(empty)')
)
# The sidecar text file will get the suffix .txt; rename it to
# whatever caller wants it named
with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
prefix.with_suffix('.txt').replace(output_text)
def use_skip_page(output_pdf: Path, output_text: Path) -> None:
output_text.write_text('[skipped page]', encoding='utf-8')
# A 0 byte file to the output to indicate a skip
output_pdf.write_bytes(b'')
def generate_pdf(
*,
input_file: Path,
output_pdf: Path,
output_text: Path,
languages: list[str],
engine_mode: int,
tessconfig: list[str],
timeout: float,
pagesegmode: int,
thresholding: ThresholdingMethod,
user_words,
user_patterns,
omp_thread_limit: int | None = None,
) -> None:
"""Generate a PDF using Tesseract's internal PDF generator.
We specifically a text-only PDF which is more suitable for combining with
the input page.
"""
args_tesseract = tess_base_args(languages, engine_mode)
if pagesegmode is not None:
args_tesseract.extend(['--psm', str(pagesegmode)])
args_tesseract.extend(['-c', 'textonly_pdf=1'])
if thresholding != ThresholdingMethod.AUTO and has_thresholding():
args_tesseract.extend(['-c', f'thresholding_method={thresholding}'])
if user_words:
args_tesseract.extend(['--user-words', user_words])
if user_patterns:
args_tesseract.extend(['--user-patterns', user_patterns])
prefix = output_pdf.parent / Path(output_pdf.stem)
# Reminder: test suite tesseract test plugins might break after any changes
# to the number of order parameters here
args_tesseract.extend([fspath(input_file), fspath(prefix), 'pdf', 'txt'])
args_tesseract.extend(tessconfig)
try:
p = run(
args_tesseract,
stdout=PIPE,
stderr=STDOUT,
timeout=timeout,
check=True,
env=_tesseract_env(omp_thread_limit),
)
stdout = p.stdout
with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
prefix.with_suffix('.txt').replace(output_text)
if not output_pdf.exists():
raise SubprocessOutputError(
"Tesseract exited successfully but did not produce the "
f"expected PDF output at {output_pdf}. Tesseract output:\n"
+ (stdout.decode(errors='replace') if stdout else '(empty)')
)
except TimeoutExpired:
page_timedout(timeout)
use_skip_page(output_pdf, output_text)
except CalledProcessError as e:
tesseract_log_output(e.output)
if b'Image too large' in e.output or b'Empty page!!' in e.output:
use_skip_page(output_pdf, output_text)
return
raise SubprocessOutputError() from e
else:
tesseract_log_output(stdout)