Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

• Tesseract being developed by google
• open source
• converting text images into text
• in image above:
  • red rectangles: OpenCV
  • text convertion: Tesseract

Tools needed

• IDE
  • Jupyter notebook
  • Spyder
  • VSCode
• Libraries
  • Tesseract
    • pip install pytesseract
  • OpenCV
    • pip install opencv-python