optical-character-recognition

How to Recognize Optical Characters in Images in Python

To run this:

• pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• If you want to recognize optical characters of the image test.png:

  python extracting_text.py test.png
  

  Output:

  This is a lot of 12 point text to test the
  ocr code and see if it works on all types
  of file format.
  
  The quick brown dog jumped over the
  lazy fox. The quick brown dog jumped
  over the lazy fox. The quick brown dog
  jumped over the lazy fox. The quick
  brown dog jumped over the lazy fox.
  

• for drawing boxes of the image test.png for the word "dog":

  python draw-boxes.py test.png dog
  

  Output:

  

• For live camera, consider using live_recognizer.py script.