Tesseract Call Graph

Route 0 - Overall path

main[api/tesseractmain.cpp] -> 
TessBaseAPI::ProcessPages[api/baseapi.cpp] -> 
TessBaseAPI::ProcessPage[api/baseapi.cpp] -> 
{
    TessBaseAPI::Recognize [api/baseapi.cpp] -> 
    {
        TessBaseAPI::FindLines [api/baseapi.cpp] ->
        Tesseract::SegmentPage [ccmain/pagesegmain.cpp] ->
        Tesseract::AutoPageSeg [ccmain/ pagesegmain.cpp]
        ...
    }

    TessResultRenderer::AddImage [api/renderer.cpp] --->
    TessTextRenderer::AddImageHandler [api/renderer.cpp] --->
    TessBaseAPI::GetUTF8Text [api/baseapi.cpp] ->
    TessBaseAPI::Recognize [api/baseapi.cpp] -> 
    {
        TessBaseAPI::FindLines [api/baseapi.cpp] ->
        Tesseract::SegmentPage [ccmain/pagesegmain.cpp] ->
        Tesseract::AutoPageSeg [ccmain/ pagesegmain.cpp]
        ..
    }

}

Recognize(NULL) can be called by:

• TessBoxTextRenderer::AddImageHandler –>TessBaseAPI::GetBoxText()
• TessHOcrRenderer::AddImageHandler –> TessBaseAPI::GetHOCRText()
• TessTextRenderer::AddImageHandler —> TessBaseAPI::GetUTF8Text()
• TessUnlvRenderer::AddImageHandler —> TessBaseAPI::GetUNLVText()
• TessBaseAPI::MeanTextConf() —> TessBaseAPI::AllWordConfidences()

Route 1 - Read image and setup internal structure (PIX)

main[api/tesseractmain.cpp] -> 
TessBaseAPI::ProcessPages[api/baseapi.cpp] -> 
TessBaseAPI::ProcessPagesInternal[api/baseapi.cpp] -> 
(i) **For TIFF**
{
    TessBaseAPI::ProcessPagesMultipageTiff[api/baseapi.cpp] ->  
}
(ii) **For non TIFF** 
    pixReadMem[liblept/src/readfile.c]
    (This is a variation of pixReadStream(), where the data is read from a memory buffer rather than a file.)
    (IFF_BMP, IFF_JFIF_JPEG, IFF_PNG, IFF_TIFF[#####], IFF_PNM, IFF_GIF, IFF_JP2, IFF_WEBP, IFF_SPIX, IFF_UNKNOWN)
    -> 
    pixReadMemPng [liblept/src/pngio.c]->
    pixReadStreamPng [liblept/src/pngio.c]->

TessBaseAPI::ProcessPage[api/baseapi.cpp] -> 
SetInputName[api/baseapi.cpp]
SetImage[api/baseapi.cpp]->
TessBaseAPI::InternalSetImage[api/baseapi.cpp]->
ImageThresholder::SetImage[ccmain/thresholder.cpp]
TessBaseAPI::Recognize [api/baseapi.cpp] -> 
TessBaseAPI::FindLines [api/baseapi.cpp] -> 
....

Comments from liblept/src/pngio.c

spp == 2 (gray + alpha), spp == 3 (rgb), spp == 4 (rgba)
grayscale + alpha; convert to RGBA
do not support 2 spp PIX
Any image with alpha is converted to RGBA (spp = 4, with equal red, green and blue channels) on reading.
There are three important cases with alpha:

• (a) grayscale-with-alpha (spp = 2), where bpp = 8, and each pixel has an associated alpha (transparency) value in the second component of the