code-lab.opencv

Code lab demonstrating the use of OpenCV and Tesseract OCR to extract text from rasters in Python.

This repository also contains some handy documentation for OpenCV's Python bindings. You can also find the python binding in OpenCV's official documentation.

There are also a number of useful OpenCV Python tutorials here

Software Required for this Lab

• Python 2.7
• OpenCV 2.4.11
• Tesseract OCR 3.02

Python Packages Required for this Lab

• numpy: Scientific computing pacakge.
• matplotlib.pyplot: Plotting package.
• cv2: OpenCV's python package.