Autoloading 3rd party composer packages into Laravel 5 Application

Question

I am trying to get my head around Composer. I want to integrate this package into my app: https://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php

I have done the following so far:

composer require thiagoalessio/tesseract_ocr 
composer dump-autoload

and I have used the library within a Controller method as such:

$tesseract = new TesseractOCR($url);

But I'm getting the dreaded:

Class 'App\Http\Controllers\TesseractOCR' not found

How do I make sure that composer autoloads the package and that it is available throughout the apps, for usage within controllers?

Sorry, newbie in Composer here..

Answer 1

Composer has auto-loaded the package, you're just referencing the class name incorrectly.

TesseractOCR lives in the “global” namespace, so you need to import it:

use TesseractOCR;

You can then use it in your controllers etc as normal.