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Tesseract OCR using Python for Extracting text from images

Extracting-text-from-images-with-Tesseract-OCR

Tesseract OCR using Python for Extracting text from images

Overview

extracting text from image using Tesseract ocr image can be like -screenshot -printed page photo -scanned image -camera capture image -window or any other application error message popup screenshot etc (NOTE:input image should not blurry or noisy) for recognize or read text you need to follow these steps -first you should have knowledge of python if not then you need to first watch our video “Python install and helloworld program Tutorial” url : https://youtu.be/oTEf-fij-9g

-download and install tesseract Ocr Library https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

and add tesseract installation dir path into Environment variables } PATH } New

or use below line on start of your script pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r”C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe”

then install 2 python libraries pip install pytesseract & pip install pillow

Example Code (example.py)* from PIL import Image

import pytesseract

#uncomment below line if you dont want to set "Environment variables" path #pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"

im = Image.open("sample1.jpg")

text = pytesseract.image_to_string(im, lang = 'eng')

print(text)

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Summary

To using Tesseract ocr we can extract text from image like screenshot,printed page photo,scanned image,camera capture image,error message screenshot etc

for more detail go to https://hzonesp.com/programming/recognize-read-text-image-python-window/ go step by step video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QISfjLdS8U