Persian-OCR

A project to bring high accuracy OCR to Persian language!
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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Usage
4. Roadmap

About The Project

As I was looking for a good Persian OCR, I've found out that there is no good open-source project that features Persian language for OCR. So I've started a project to create a simple Persian OCR to achieve the missing.

What I have Done:

• Optimize pytesseract for persian by testing different configs.
• Image Optimization for low-res images to improve accuracy significantly.
• Using a Persian Spell-Checking to improve accuracy.

Of course, This project isn't perfect and i'm still working on it to improve accuracy and speed. But I hope this project helps other people like me to have a good base for Persian OCR.

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Built With

I have used python to build this project. Two of the most useful modules in this project were pytesseract and opencv.

Getting Started

This is a simple instruction to start using this project.

Prerequisites

You need to install pytesseract on your device:

• Ubuntu

   sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

You need to add Persian Language to tesseract:

• Ubuntu

   sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-fas

Installation

Now that you've installed tesseract we can move on with Persian-OCR:_

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/sepehrraisi/Persian-OCR && \
   cd Persian-OCR

2. Create a Virtual Environment for python and Source it:

   python3 -m venv venv && \
   source ./venv/bin/activate

3. Install Python modules requirements.txt

   pip install -r requirements.txt

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Usage

After installing the requirements you can use it by running the ocr.py file:

python ./ocr.py -i <inputfile> -o <outputfile>     

Then it will write the results to outputfile

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Roadmap

• Use pytesseract to extract text
• Improve accuracy by simple opencv features
• Improve accuracy by UpScaling the images
• Add post-processing modules to improve accuracy
• Add modular capabilities to improve functionality
• Add Table recognition
• Multi-language Support
  • Persian
  • English

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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