tesseract-ocrHow can I use Tesseract OCR Tessdata to recognize text in an image?

Tesseract OCR Tessdata is an open source library for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that can be used to recognize text in an image. To use Tessdata, you need to install the library and set up the environment.

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

import pytesseract
from PIL import Image

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"

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

print(text)

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

The code consists of the following parts:

1. import pytesseract: This imports the pytesseract library that allows us to use the Tesseract OCR Tessdata.
2. from PIL import Image: This imports the Image library from the Pillow library, which is used to open the image.
3. pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe": This sets the path to the Tesseract OCR executable.
4. img = Image.open('example.png'): This opens the image.
5. text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img): This calls the Tesseract OCR Tessdata to recognize the text in the image.
6. print(text): This prints the recognized text.

Helpful links

• Tesseract OCR
• PyTesseract
• Pillow

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