Document Scanner

To extract text and data from documents like invoices, book pages, tables etc using OpenCV and Tesseract OCR.

Overview

The document scanner implements:

• Preprocessing images to improve OCR accuracy
• Contour detection and perspective transforms to isolate ROIs
• Text extraction using PyTesseract

It can handle multiple document types:

• Invoices
• Book pages
• Tables

The dataextractor.py module contains the core implementation.

Requirements

The scanner requires:

• OpenCV
• PyTesseract
• NumPy

Install requirements using:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Examples

The static/samples/ folder contains example images of different documents.