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igbo-ocr

OCR for Igbo Language

This is a minimal API skeleton that utilizes the Tesseract OCR engine trained for the Igbo language to extract text from an image.

Installing Dependencies

You'll need to install the following

Language Data

Tesseract expects some configuration data. To fetch them:

make tesseract-langdata

(This step is only needed once and already included implicitly in the training target, but you might want to run explicitly it in advance.)

Training

According to ISO 639 codes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes, Our model name is ibo From the Tesseract training documentation, to train, we run

make training MODEL_NAME=ibo