Optical Character Recognition(OCR) is the process of electronically extracting text from images or any documents like PDF and reusing it in a variety of ways such as full text searches. In this blog, we will see, how to use 'Python-tesseract', an OCR tool for python. It will recognize and read the text present in images. It can read all image types - png, jpeg, gif, tiff, bmp etc. It’s widely used to process everything from scanned documents.
What is OCR?
Optical Character Recognition(OCR) is the process of electronically extracting text from images or any documents like PDF and reusing it in a variety of ways such as full text searches.
In this blog, we will see, how to use 'Python-tesseract', an OCR tool for python.
pytesseract:
It will recognize and read the text present in images. It can read all image types - png, jpeg, gif, tiff, bmp etc. It’s widely used to process everything from scanned documents.
Installation:
$ sudo pip install pytesseract
Requirements:
* Requires python 2.5 or later versions.
* And requires Python Imaging Library(PIL).
Usage:
From the shell:
$ ./pytesseract.py test.pngAbove command prints the recognized text from image 'test.png'.
$ ./pytesseract.py -l eng test-english.jpgAbove command recognizes english text.
In Python Script:
import Image
from tesseract import image_to_string
print image_to_string(Image.open('test.png'))
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