ahmedgulabkhan / tei2s

TEI2S is a project which is really helpful for the visually impaired, in a sense that it takes an image containing text embedding as the input, extracts the text from the image, and converts this text to speech, i.e; the output is an audio file containing the text which is embedded in the provided input image.

TEI2S

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TEI2S (Text Embedded Image to Speech conversion) is a project which is really helpful for the visually impaired, in a sense that it takes an image containing text embedding as the input, extracts the text from the image, and converts this text to speech, i.e; the output is an audio file containing the text which is embedded in the provided input image.

Configuration Steps

1. Cloning the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/ahmedgulabkhan/TEI2S.git

2. Installing the dependencies

First goto the tesseract-OCR engine, read the steps and install it on your system. After installing it, follow the steps mentioned below.

$ pip install numpy

$ pip install PIL

$ pip install opencv-python

$ pip install pytesseract

$ pip install gTTS

This installs all the required dependencies like Numpy, PIL (Python Imaging Library), OpenCV, Pytesseract and gTTS.

3. Running the file

Open the terminal and cd to the directory where you have cloned the repository. Then run the file by typing python main.py.

tei2s's Issues

Mixing Windows and Linux instructions

Hi there,

The below instructions are in linux/mac whereas your python code is in window

$ pip install numpy

$ pip install PIL

$ pip install opencv-python

$ pip install pytesseract

$ pip install gTTS

----------python code --------------

import cv2
import numpy as np
import pytesseract
from PIL import Image
from gtts import gTTS
import os

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'

Path of working folder on Disk

src_path = './'