OCR solution for PHP/Python

I'm looking for an OCR Library that could read english text and numbers for PHP or Python

I don't learning a new programming language just for using an OCR,

however, if I see that there开发者_StackOverflow社区 isn't any other option, I guess it would be possible (please nothing .Net)

Try: http://code.google.com/p/pytesser/

It wraps this engine: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

To install tesseract-ocr for ubuntu :

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

To us it the, you can use the command-line or use my own OCR script