Write image text to a new text file?

Question

I am using tesseract for OCR. I am on ubuntu 18.04.

I have this program which extracts the texts from an image and print it. I want that program to create a new text file and paste the extracted content on to the new text file, but I am only able to do these

copy the content to clipboard
open new texteditor(geditor) file I don't know how to paste the copied content

Here is my program which extracts the text from image

from pytesseract import image_to_string 
from PIL import Image
print image_to_string(Image.open('sample.jpg'))

Here is the program which copies the text to clipboard,

import os
def addToClipBoard(text):
    command = 'echo ' + text.strip() + '| clip'
    os.system(command)

This program will open the geditor and create a new text file

import subprocess
proc = subprocess.Popen(['gedit', 'file.txt'])

Any help would be appreciated.

Why not open a new file (in your program) and write the extracted text into it? — DYZ, Jun 01 '19 at 06:29
Do you have to use the clipboard or you just want the text in a text file? — Mohit Motwani, Jun 01 '19 at 06:29

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '19 at 06:31

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If you just want the text, then open a text file and write to it:

from pytesseract import image_to_string 
from PIL import Image
text =  image_to_string(Image.open('sample.jpg'))

with open('file.txt', mode = 'w') as f:
    f.write(text)

answered Jun 01 '19 at 06:31

Mohit Motwani

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It keeps on overwriting the file, is there any way to create a new "file.txt" with different name, say "file1.txt" and when I run it again "file2.txt" – Gaurav Bahadur Jun 01 '19 at 08:14
You can write a for loop and add in numbers? – Mohit Motwani Jun 01 '19 at 08:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '19 at 06:31

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Just as I proposed in the comment, create a new file and write the extracted text into it:

with open('file.txt', 'w') as outfile:
    outfile.write(image_to_string(Image.open('sample.jpg')))

answered Jun 01 '19 at 06:31

DYZ

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Write image text to a new text file?

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