Use camera to recognize a text and play it as audio.
Takes an photo with devices camera and processing it using OpenCV. The image is then passed through Tesseract and turned into string format. The string is played using Google's Text-To-Speech API (gTTS).
Required libraries: OpenCV and Tesseract
Required python packages: pytesseract, gTTS, pygame and tkinter.
Follow instructions here: https://www.learnopencv.com/install-opencv3-on-ubuntu/
Note that there may be issues running opencv with Anaconda3 (if you don't
know what Anaconda is, you are probably not using it).
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
Expects you to have opencv installed according to instructions above. Before installing packages, one must be using opencv virtual environment, as used in instructions for installing OpenCV.
workon facecourse-py3
To install package, run
pip install <package>
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