tesseract-ocrHow do I use tesseract OCR with Python?

Tesseract OCR is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine that can be used with Python. It can be used to extract text from images and scanned documents.

To use Tesseract OCR with Python, you will need to install the pytesseract package. This can be done using pip:

pip install pytesseract

Once the package is installed, you can use the pytesseract.image_to_string() function to extract text from an image. For example:

import pytesseract
from PIL import Image

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

The output of the above code might look something like this:

This is an example image.

The code consists of the following parts:

• import pytesseract: Imports the pytesseract module.
• from PIL import Image: Imports the Image module from the Pillow library.
• image = Image.open('example.png'): Opens the example.png image and assigns it to the image variable.
• text = pytesseract.image_to_string(image): Uses the pytesseract.image_to_string() function to extract text from the image variable.
• print(text): Prints the extracted text.

For more information, please refer to the following links:

• pytesseract documentation
• Tesseract OCR documentation

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