tesseract-ocrHow can I use tesseract OCR?

Tesseract OCR is an optical character recognition (OCR) engine that can be used to recognize text from images. It is an open-source software developed by Google and is available for free.

To use tesseract OCR, you need to install it on your system. You can install it using pip or conda.

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

from PIL import Image
import pytesseract

img = Image.open('example.png')
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
print(text)

The output of the above code will be the text contained in the image.

The code consists of the following parts:

1. from PIL import Image imports the Python Imaging Library (PIL) module which is used to open the image.
2. import pytesseract imports the Tesseract OCR library.
3. img = Image.open('example.png') opens the image file.
4. text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img) uses the Tesseract OCR library to recognize text from the image.
5. print(text) prints the recognized text.

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

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