Text detection with Python and Opencv | OCR using EasyOCR | Computer vision tutorial

In this video I show you how to make an optical character recognition (OCR) using Python, OpenCV and EasyOCR !

Following the steps of this 15 minutes tutorial you will be able to detect text on images !

#ocr #computervision #textdetection #python #easyocr #opencv

[gloryness]

I noticed that test2.png wasn't a perfect detection because "$5.00 FEE" was picked up as "S5.00 FEE"
Aside from that, really helpful tutorial!

[WelcomeToMyLife]

Thanks! Your videos helped me a lot in trying to get into computer vision.

[mermoqqueijo]

Hey, just found out about your channel and is very good! I am also a Computer Vision practitioner, and I will use your code for an application with a robot focused for the pedagogy. Basically, the goal is to detect Blue, Red and Green texts and it send an information to the robot to pick it up a piece of that color =).

I also saw that you have a tutorial for the color detection, so I might use that also haha.

Anyways, great job!

[gabrielchinzz]

extremely helpful tutorial for a project, im doing right now related to OCR.Only problem now is that this model tends mistake the $ sign for an S when testing some images, other than that it is able to detect texts quite well!

[middlelevelgamer]

Is there a way to group high score text and low score text and display only high score text?

[stern]

hey buddy could you do an update on the code that have it print out the text to the consol and also lets say that some words letter has a font that is bgger and bolder than the rest that it also target that too then print out tit to the console, example text that is bigger or like a header it print it like this for example: since caution is more bigger it it print H1- CAUTION for caution, H2- maintain social destancing for maintain social destancing etc. you get the point

[philipgeorgiev]

Is there anything better than easyocr that we can run locally like claude 3 haiku ?

[hamzawi]

Thank you very much. It is informative.

[hemasripidintla-jgss]

Can you do a video on vertical text detection
For eg:
1
6
7
E
5
Text should detect and recognise vertically also
Pls make a video on this

[vasilisvasileiou]

hello sir!, Is it possible to train an easyOCR model to detect images based on my own dataset?

[brahimaissa]

Thanks for you for this, i hope if you can to explain how it works.

[nikowolfwood]

Hi!! I found your channel today, I'm trying to make a similar functionality but with text in real time that appears on screen (to make translations in real time). Do you think that is possible using opencv or I will need to use another image detection model?
Cheers! and keep up with the good work!

[zyzz]

Which datasets are used in this project? What is the accuracy?

[muzhafarhashim]

Great tutorial ! Can we add language translation as an output for this project ? Is like image to text translation .

[harishdasari]

Hi I'm getting error like " process finished with exit code -1073742795 while executing easyocr with python 3.9. can provide any solution for this issue.

[sayisha]

Nice tutorial! Is it possible to read text from an inverted image using easyocr and that the output is expected to come as expected?

[thaihoanguyen]

my output using print(Text) is only "Using CPU. Note: This module is much faster with a GPU". Nothing else. why? Help me please

[SukumarReddyMandem-etgd]

Hi Your videos are helpful...Can we build OCR model to detect date and time in the video. For me it will be in the same place throught the video. Please help me.

[satypk]

In my case it is detecting & writing only 3rd line "AND BIKE USE".

[holdengreene]

Ive had a lot of trouble just getting easyOCR installed.I keep getting errors when the depoendencies are getting installed, specifically pytorch. Ive read that pytorch is not compatable with any python version after 3.7 which i find odd and also this is never mentioned in the video. This feels like it should be a simple pip install comand but i have been trying for hours and nothing works. Anyone else encoutnering this issue?