A Basic Document Scanner

A basic document scanner that scans an image a produces a better readable form of it,using OpenCV and Python

Input image

Final Result

Table of Contents

• General Info
• Installing and running the project on local machine
• Libraries Used
• End Product
• References

General Info

A document scanner can be build using basic image processing techniques, inorder to achieve the result

Usually the process takes only three main process:-

1. Detect the edge
2. Use the edges in the image to find the contour (outline) representing the piece of paper being scanned.
3. Apply a perspective transform to obtain the top-down view of the document.

Installing and running the project on local machine

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/...

Go to the project directory

cd Document_Scanner_OpenCV

Run the shell script to install required packages and start the program.

./run.sh

• If you face any permission errors while running the shell script. Write the given code.

  chmod +x run.sh
  

  This provides you with the execution rights in order to run the script.

Or, Just click on the run.sh file!

Libraries Used

• OpenCV
• Python3
• numpy

End Product

I have added a scanned result.

References

This could have not possible without the help of pyimagesearch and Pysource