Extract Text From Images in Python (OCR)

In this video we learn how to use OCR to extract text from images using Python and Tesseract.

◾◾◾◾◾◾◾◾◾◾◾◾◾◾◾◾◾
📚 Programming Books & Merch 📚

🌐 Social Media & Contact 🌐

[StephenBeale]

Page segmentation modes:
O Orientation and script detection (OSD) only
1 Automatic page segmentation with OSD. ‘
2 Automatic page segmentation, but no OSD, or OCR.
3 Fully automatic page segmentation, but no OSD. (Default)
4 Assume a single column of text of variable sizes.
5 Assume a single uniform block of vertically aligned text.
6 Assume a single uniform block of textJ
7 Treat the image as a single text line.
8 Treat the image as a single word.
9 Treat the image as a single word in a circle.
10 Treat the image as a single character.
11 Sparse text. Find as much text as possible in no particular order.
12 Sparse text with OSD.
13 Raw line. Treat the image as a single text line, bypassing hacks that are Tesseract—specific.

[rupacFan]

Thank you dude! Exactly what I was looking for! Suggestion, do you think you can make a video on Google Drive and Python?

[mishudhar]

Your video helped a lot than university. Thank you so much. I can't express how much it helped.

[foxii]

I never thought Nacho would teach me Python

[desmondchia]

hi, the cv2.fucntion was highlighted and cannot run. no errors either. import cv2 done. opencv-python installed....all done. how to resolve?

[kaitaojiang]

According to my tests, PaddleOCR works better than tesseract in most scenes.

[MedoHamdani]

Is it possible to export it into an online document automatically, then it get checked by A.I to detect any mistakes or misspelling words, so the user can automatically and quickly fix them up one by one, by jumping from one word to another.
Would this work on manuscripts such as Arabic language, and is there a way to train the machine to recognise the characters of Arabic including Tashkeel.
Thanks

[zackjennings]

do you have any videos on training tesseract to better recognize say a different font?

[mars-csuk]

Awesome video. It would be nice if we can use the phone to do the same photo to text conversion.

[DhruvalBhinsara]

you always bring this awesome videos . <3

[invinciblenoman]

I am facing this error. Anyone Can help me? PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

[Than_]

how do you make it extract text from what is currently on ur screen? and store it in a variable which changes each time because each time whats stored on ur screen is different

[borisveselov]

Thank you for your tutorials!
I have a question: what would be the best way to extract a specific information, such as invoice number or purchase order number. Let’s say there are many different vendors, maybe over 100 vendors. And every vendor has invoice number in different parts of the document. What technique would be used to perform this kind of ocr?

[matheus.tecchio]

Can I use that to read numerical values? I'm creating a project that I can read every day my energy usage with a camera

[szymonandrzejewski]

Can I put this kind of a program on the web server, get data from webhooks, process them with OpenCV + Tesseract, and then send processed data back to the input server?

Actually I mean if the tesseract and whole program can work on server environment?

[anilsharmag]

Dear Sir, I am your Subscriber

I want to create a tool that finds text errors in the image.

For Example:
I forgot to write CONTACT US, BUY NOW, CONTACT NUMBER, SPELLING MISTAKE, etc... in my social media post.
that the tool finds error and suggests what are missing or what is incorrect in social media post.

🙏 Please guide me and suggest what course I need to buy or what I need to learn to create this tool
Thank you

[ryanjcole]

Hey mate- -- any chance these files might be in a repo somewhere for reference?

[vivekan]

Nice tutorial. Can you post a Tutorial on how to extract tabular data in OCR Python

[samuraigaming]

tesseract thinks 7 is 1 for me, is there anything i can do, its also not so good at detecting dots

[ammadkhan]

Hi, do you have any video on Azure Function App using Python as a Scripting Language to run the python script in Azure Function app?