tesseract-ocrHow can I use Google Colab to implement Tesseract OCR?

Google Colab is a great tool for implementing Tesseract OCR. To use it:

1. Install the Tesseract library in Colab:

!apt install tesseract-ocr

2. Import the necessary libraries:

import pytesseract
import cv2
import numpy as np

3. Read the image into the notebook:

image = cv2.imread('image.png')

4. Pre-process the image:

gray = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

5. Apply Tesseract OCR:

text = pytesseract.image_to_string(gray)

6. Print the output:

print(text)

Output example

This is a sample text

Helpful links

• Google Colab
• Tesseract OCR

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