OCR using Pytesseract library in python ( 20 lines )

This blog contains code for the text detection using open-cv and Pytesseract libraries in python

STEP1: Installation of libraries 

*pip install OpenCV-python

*pip install pillow

*pip install Pytesseract

STEP2: Import the libraries 

import cv2
from PIL import Image
from pytesseract import pytesseract

STEP3: Accessing webcam

camera=cv2.VideoCapture(0)

STEP4: The Loop

while True:

    _,image=camera.read()

    cv2.imshow('image',image)

    if cv2.waitKey(1)& 0xFF==ord('s'):

        cv2.imwrite('test1.jpg',image)

        break

camera.release()

cv2.destroyAllWindows()

STEP5: Converting Text to speech

def tesseract():

    path_to_tesseract = r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"

    image_path = "test1.jpg"

    pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = path_to_tesseract

    text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(image_path))

    print(text[:-1])

tesseract()

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