src/transformers/models/layoutlmv2/feature_extraction_layoutlmv2.py/apply_tesseract
def apply_tesseract(image: Image.Image):
    """Applies Tesseract OCR on a document image, and returns recognized words + normalized bounding boxes."""

    # apply OCR
    data = pytesseract.image_to_data(image, output_type="dict")
    words, left, top, width, height = data["text"], data["left"], data["top"], data["width"], data["height"]

    # filter empty words and corresponding coordinates
    irrelevant_indices = [idx for idx, word in enumerate(words) if not word.strip()]
    words = [word for idx, word in enumerate(words) if idx not in irrelevant_indices]
    left = [coord for idx, coord in enumerate(left) if idx not in irrelevant_indices]
    top = [coord for idx, coord in enumerate(top) if idx not in irrelevant_indices]
    width = [coord for idx, coord in enumerate(width) if idx not in irrelevant_indices]
    height = [coord for idx, coord in enumerate(height) if idx not in irrelevant_indices]

    # turn coordinates into (left, top, left+width, top+height) format
    actual_boxes = []
    for x, y, w, h in zip(left, top, width, height):
        actual_box = [x, y, x + w, y + h]
        actual_boxes.append(actual_box)

    image_width, image_height = image.size

    # finally, normalize the bounding boxes
    normalized_boxes = []
    for box in actual_boxes:
        normalized_boxes.append(normalize_box(box, image_width, image_height))

    assert len(words) == len(normalized_boxes), "Not as many words as there are bounding boxes"

    return words, normalized_boxes