ImageToText

Using the easyocr and pytesseract libs to extract text from image

Important installations

• Virtual Environment:

> pip install pytesseract

> pip install tesseract

> pip install Pillow

> pip install easyocr

> pip install 

• If you're on windows:

Step 1: Download tesseract exe using : https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/tesseract/tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-v5.2.0.20220712.exe

Step 2: Type these commands in the .py file before running it.

> ocr_path = r"--the path to the tesseract.exe present in tesseractOCR folder in program files in User--"
      
> pyt.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = ocr_path

• If you're using macOs and it gives you any errors regarding tesseract, please use Homebrew to download the library:

Link : https://brew.sh

after installation, run

> brew install tesseract

How it operates

Step 1: Change the name of your image to 'ocr' and make sure that it's either png or jpg.

Step 2: Open the project in your compiler.

Step 3: Add the image in the project (no folder, just drag and drop).

Step 3: On running either jpgToText.py or pngToText.py depending on the file, you will get a file named 'ocr.txt'. If you run the code again, it will overwrite the file.

Project By : Arshiya Sharma