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Python-tesseract is a wrapper class for Tesseract OCR that allows any conventional image files (JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, etc.) to be read and get its text, data of text, or even convert it to pdf.

Python-tesseract is a wrapper class for OCR that allows any conventional image files (JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, etc.) to be read and decoded into usable text.

Tesseract is advertised as the most accurate open source OCR engine available. It was developed at HP Labs between 1985 and 1995 and then remained dormant until 2006 when Google revived the project.

For more information, please see the Python-tesseract page or the Tesseract page.

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Unable to extract a word out of an image

I've written a script in python in combination with pytesseract to extract a word out of an image. There is only a single word TOOLS available in that image and that is what I'm after. Currently my below script is giving me wrong output which is…
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Pytesseract - Using user patterns

I'm trying to use tesseract's user-patterns with pytesseract but can't seem to get the command working. This seems like it should be fairly straight forward but the documentation is sparse I'm on tesseract 3.05.01. Doing this doesn't work:…
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How to remove rectangle shapes from image, keeping text, in Python3?

I am trying to extract the text from flowcharts and decision trees. If I use the image with original boxes/shapes, the text region detection is poor. Is there any way to remove these shapes (keeping the text)?
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How extract text from a picture to an excel sheet using Tesseract-OCR

I am still new to Python and Tesseract and I have problems trying to extract the text from an image with a table ( shown in the picture ) into an excel file. I followed the tutorial from PyImageSearch and it extracted the text and print it in the…
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pytesseract tessedit_char_whitelist not accepting quote

I have started working with pytesserract in python. When i pass it single or double quote in from PIL import Image import pytesseract import numpy as np tesseract_config = r"""-c…
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String comparison does not work in python

I'm writing a script that work with tesseract-ocr. I get text from screen and then I need to compare it with a string. The problem is that the comparison fails even if I'm sure that the strings are the same. How can I made my code works? Here my…
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Captcha preprocessing and solving with Opencv and pytesseract

Problem I am trying to write code in Python for the Image preprocessing and recognition using Tesseract-OCR. My goal is to solve this form of captcha reliably. Original captcha and result of each preprocessing step Steps as of Now Greyscale and…
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Difference between two pip3 packages: pytesseract vs tesseract

What is the difference between these two packages? pip3 install pytesseract pip3 install tesseract
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pytesseract error on python 2.7 tesseractError:1

please help me to solve this problem ~ I got the following error when I use pytesseract： Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:/pycharm/PycharmProjects/spider/test/test_orc.py", line 12, in vcode =…
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Finding the bounding box of the glyph in tesseract

I was going through the c++ API part of tesseract and found this snippet of code for getting each symbol from a text. Pix *image = pixRead("/usr/src/tesseract-3.02/phototest.tif"); tesseract::TessBaseAPI *api = new tesseract::TessBaseAPI(); …
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Tesseract failing on trivial input image. Segfault error

I'm writing a tutorial on implementing a simple OCR web API in Flask using Tesseract. This has proven awesome so far, but I am currently running into a strange issue. Here is what we are seeing: (Pdb) ENGINE.process_image(image) *** TesseractError:…
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Please call SetImage before attempting recognition.0 error by pytesser

i am trying to convert a text image into text. I am using pytesser in python for that I have already installed tesseract but on running even the following code: from pytesser import * im = Image.open('phototest.tif') text = image_to_string(im) print…
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Install tesseract/pytesser on Mac OS X

I am trying to install this (and additionally pytesser) for osx 10.9 (with anaconda as default python). I have looked around online but I can't get any of the tutorials to work as they all seem to be extinct (homebrew doesn't have a formula for…
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Missing or incompatible file: ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application

Problem: Getting this error when trying to import python-tesseract into my project (OCR functionality): ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application. I do not know what exactly the problem is I do not have the skills and…
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Tesseract OCR gives a strange output in Cloud Run instance, while local output is correct

We have a pipeline running in Google Cloud Platform that: extracts crops from a text document image processes those crops to ensure they are always black text on white background passes the crops to pytesseract to extract the text. Most times,…
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