OCR-using-python

Extracting text from Images using OCR in python.

Prerequisites - pytesseract, numpy, cv2

Install the following modules using the "Command prompt" in windows:

To install "pytesseract": pip install pytesseract To install "numpy": pip install numpy To install "cv2": pip install opencv-python

IMPORTANT:

  After installing "pytesseract" module, open the folder where tesseract is installed and add the path to "tesseract.exe" to "pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd" as a raw string.
  This helps to not deal with setting up the environment variable for "Tesseract".

For people having trouble in installing "pytesseract":

  Link for the windows installer: https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/tesseract/tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-5.3.3.20231005.exe

OCR-with-ML

Prerequisites - scikit-learn:

To install "scikit-learn": pip install scikit-learn