PDF Extraction using Tesseract

About

An OCR project as a Proof of Concept to deploy a machine learning project using Streamlit. The text extraction process is accompanied with image processing for better text recognition and achieving higher efficiency.

Libraries / Frameworks

• Streamlit - UI

• Tkinter - File download setup

• Pytesseract

• Pdf2Image

• OpenCV - Image Processing

Code Execution

• Make sure you have Python 3.8 installed on the system.

• Open cmd where the contents are unzipped.

• Run the below command to install required packages.

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Install Tesseract setup file

• Download poppler-0.68.0.7z and Extract file in C:\Program Files\poppler-0.68.0\

• Once all packages are installed, run the following command:

  streamlit run OCR.py

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Output

Bounding Box around recognized text

Text extraction and document saved

Extracted Text Output