NLP-image-to-text

Code to extract text from images

pip install -r requirements.txt

If you encounter file not found error as below:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'tesseract'

Run the following command

brew install tesseract

Then run the image-to-text.py as below:

 python image-to-text.py <relative filepaths separated by spaces>

We observe that for clean inputs the accuracy is high. See input 2. Noisy input may not have the same effect!

Some sample inputs and outputs:

Input:

Output:

DON’T
WATCH THE
CLOCK;



KEEP GOING.

SAM LEVENSON

/
/

7 J .- - flCESScom

Input:

Output:

How to recognize text from image with Python OpenCv OCR ?

Input:

Output:

A negative mind
will nevergive you
a positivevli‘fe.

Credit: Base code has been taken from Tram Vo Minh's blog. And modifications have been performed on that!