Optical character recognition, or OCR, is a technology that turns typewritten, printed, or handwritten text into a digital format. Since the technology can read text from images, scanned documents, ...
There are several ways a page of text can be analysed. The tesseract api provides several page segmentation modes if you want to run OCR on only a small region or in different orientations, etc.
This project demonstrates a basic yet effective Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system built using Python. It uses the Tesseract OCR engine, integrated through the pytesseract library, along with ...