_cmd = r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe" The configuration below is fine if you’re using windows, instead if you’re on Mac or Linux, you should refer to the official documentation to see how to set it up. Then on line 5 you need to tell where the Tesseract engine is installed. Let’s try extracting the text from this image.įirst of all we start by importing the libraries Opencv, Numpy and Pytesseract. I have this digitalized page of a book (“The big sleep”). Read text from an imageĪfter we’re done with the installation, it’s the time for us to try Tesseract to read the text from an image. So copy the following commands on your terminal. It can be easily installed as any other python library using the pip command. Pytesseract is an essential library if we want to use tesseract with Python. If this command doesn’t work, check this page for more instructions: 1.3 Install PyTesseract To install tesseract on Mac use this command: sudo port install tesseract If the commands don’t work, you can refer to the Tesseract website page for more instructions. On Linux you can simply open the terminal and insert the following commands: sudo apt install tesseract-ocr If you want to follow step by step the installation process, you can watch it on my video tutorial above. If you have windows, go on this page, download and install tesseract 64 bit. Then it’s the moment to install Tesseract. If not, you can follow this guide to install Opencv and Python on Windows. With this library we can use the tesseract engine with python with just a few lines of code.įirst of all let’s make sure that you have python and Opencv installed. Pytesseract: it’s the tesseract binding for python.It takes the image and in return gives us the text. Tesseract: it’s the OCR engine, so the core of the actual text recognition.Python and Opencv: we will use the python programming language and Opencv to load the image, and do some image preprocessing (for example remove the areas where there is no text, remove some noise, apply some image filter to make the text more readable).
Install Tesseract to work with Python and Opencvīefore proceeding with the installation of Tesseract, it’s important to understand all the tools that we are going to use and the purpose of each of them. Tune tesseract to improve the text recognitionġ.How to install Tesseract on (Windows, Mac or Linux).Tesseract is the most popular OCR (Optical character recognition), it is open source and it is developed by google since 2006. In this tutorial we’re going to see how to use Tesseract to recognize text from an image.
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