Building a Simple OCR App with Python | Automating Text Search

Let's write a simple Python script to automate search over text in your local images with OCR using Python.
Let's get started! :)

📚 Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction and setting up the OCR search project
00:18 - Initial project setup requirements and Python package installations
00:32 - Importing necessary libraries
00:45 - Setting up the functions to scan images for text and loop over images in a folder
01:00 - Setting up EasyOCR reader for text detection
01:16 - Coding the OCR scan function
01:57 - Setting up the function to process recognized text
02:20 - Introduction of a template for the search images function
02:31 - Initial testing of the OCR scan function
03:00 - Execution of the OCR scan on an image for demonstration
03:16 - Starting the development of the search images function
04:12 - Explanation of how the search images function works
06:10 - Testing the search images function
07:28 - Transitioning the code to an application callable from terminal
08:20 - Developing a CLI tool to enable OCR search from terminal
10:26 - Parsing the arguments for the CLI tool
11:34 - Coding the logic to handle directory search and keyword recognition
12:30 - Handling single image OCR search in the CLI tool
14:31 - Running and testing the application in the terminal
15:02 - Conclusion and review of the project.

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[flamaheros]

Can I create my own ocr program without import any external programs ?

[Bolo]

for some reason it isnt working for me, test image is just a normal text image just like you have
import easyocr
import os
reader = easyocr.Reader(['en'], gpu = False)
def ocrscan(image_path: str):
print("ran")
result =
recognized_text = " ".join(elem[1] for elem in result)
return recognized_text
image_path = "./Notes/testocr.png"


Terminal:
it just says
Using CPU. Note: This module is much faster with a GPU.
ran

[UnseenOct]

I havent finished the video yet as Im just researching for a project idea I have, but will this work with other scripts? I want to make an app that does this but for Japanese

[volkantansk]

is this project count as Artificial neural networks ?