OCR-Medicine-Reader

Medicine-Label-Reader-OCR

• This project aims to read and extract medicine labels and information from medicines and pill containers. This project also sees the implementation of PaddleOCR.

Libraries used:

• paddleocr
• matplotlib
• cv2
• os module

Why I used Paddleocr?

• Paddleocr has a series of pre-trained models and helps in easy ocr implementation.
• It has pre built direction classifiers as well.
• Access to many multilingual models.

Steps to run/use the model:

1. Import the required libraries.
2. Install paddleocr.
3. Initialize model and training.
4. Visualize results based on requirement.