This is a simple Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool built with Python. It uses the pytesseract library to extract text from images. The tool provides a simple GUI using tkinter for user interaction.
- Select an image file (supports .png, .jpg, .jpeg formats)
- Display the selected image in the application
- Extract text from the selected image
- Display the extracted text in the application
- Python 3
- tkinter
- PIL (Pillow)
- pytesseract
- Install Python 3 and pip if not already installed.
- Clone this repository.
- Navigate to the cloned repository.
- Install the required packages using pip:
pip install -r requirements.txt- Run the script:
python OCR.py- Click on the "Select Image" button to choose an image.
- The selected image will be displayed and the extracted text will appear in the text box.
This tool uses Tesseract OCR which needs to be installed and the path to the tesseract.exe should be correctly specified in the script. In this script, it is specified as C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe. Please update this path if your Tesseract OCR installation is in a different location. (only needed if running from source code)