tesseract-ocrHow can I use Google's Tesseract OCR to recognize text from an image?

Google's Tesseract OCR is an open source optical character recognition (OCR) engine. It can be used to recognize text from an image.

To use Tesseract OCR, you need to install the Python-Tesseract library.

Once the library is installed, you can use the following example code to recognize text from an image:

import pytesseract
from PIL import Image

# Path of the image to be recognized
img_path = 'test.png'

# Recognize the text as string
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(img_path))

# Print the recognized text
print(text)

This example code will output the text recognized from the image:

This is a test image.

The code consists of three parts:

1. Importing the necessary libraries: import pytesseract and from PIL import Image
2. Specifying the path of the image to be recognized: img_path = 'test.png'
3. Recognizing the text from the image and printing the output: text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(img_path)) and print(text)

For more information on how to use Tesseract OCR, you can refer to the official documentation.

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