tesseract-ocrHow can I use Tesseract OCR in a web application?

To use Tesseract OCR in a web application, you need to first install the Tesseract OCR library. You can do this by using the command sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr on Ubuntu, or brew install tesseract on Mac.

Once the library is installed, you can use the Tesseract OCR library in your web application by utilizing the Tesseract API. An example of this is shown below:

import pytesseract
from PIL import Image

# Path to the image
img = Image.open("image.png")

# Use Tesseract to extract the text from the image
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)

print(text)

This code would output the text extracted from the image.

Code explanation

1. import pytesseract: This imports the Tesseract library.
2. from PIL import Image: This imports the Python Imaging Library (PIL) which is used to open the image.
3. img = Image.open("image.png"): This opens the image file.
4. text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img): This uses the Tesseract library to extract the text from the image.
5. print(text): This prints the text extracted from the image.

Helpful links

• https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
• https://pypi.org/project/pytesseract/
• https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

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