Extract the text from a image and isolate words

Author: Obnoxious-coder

Extract_Text_from_image.py

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+# extract text from a img and its coordinates using the pytesseract module
+import cv2
+import pytesseract
+# You need to add tesseract binary dependency to system variable for this to work
+
+img =cv2.imread('img.png')
+#We need to convert the img into RGB format
+img=cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
+
+hI,wI,k=img.shape
+print(pytesseract.image_to_string(img))
+boxes=pytesseract.image_to_boxes(img)
+for b in boxes.splitlines():
+    b=b.split(' ')
+    x,y,w,h=int(b[1]),int(b[2]),int(b[3]),int(b[4])
+    cv2.rectangle(img,(x,hI-y),(w,hI-h),(0,0,255),0.2)
+
+cv2.imshow('img',img)
+cv2.waitKey(0)