hussaintamboli / python-image-to-text

Python program to recognize Text from Images using Google's tesseract-ocr

Installation

1. Install system dependencies

   $ sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

2. Download the latest Opencv from https://opencv.org/

3. Follow these instructions to install opencv http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15790501/why-cv2-so-missing-after-opencv-installed and set PYTHONPATH like it's said

   export PYTHONPATH=~/projects/opencv/release/lib:$PYTHONPATH

4. Install python dependencies

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Test

It will recognise text from test.jpg

$ python recognise.py

Contributing