tesseract-ocrHow can I use Tesseract OCR with Python on GitHub?

Tesseract OCR can be used with Python on GitHub by using the pytesseract library. This library provides an easy-to-use wrapper for the Tesseract OCR engine.

Example code

import pytesseract
import cv2

# Read image
img = cv2.imread("sample.jpg")

# Apply OCR
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)

# Print recognized text
print(text)

Output example

This is a sample text

Code explanation

• import pytesseract: Imports the pytesseract library.
• import cv2: Imports the OpenCV library.
• img = cv2.imread("sample.jpg"): Reads the image from the file sample.jpg.
• text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img): Applies OCR to the image and stores the recognized text in the text variable.
• print(text): Prints the recognized text.

Helpful links

• pytesseract Documentation
• Tesseract OCR on GitHub

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