Tesseract Opencv Mat
The method of extracting text from images is also called optical character recognition ocr or sometimes simply text recognition.
Tesseract opencv mat. Pytesseract python bindings for tesseract ocr needed to make use of the previously installed tesseract libraries. Tesseract a highly popular ocr engine was originally developed by hewlett packard in the 1980s and was then open sourced in 2005. The method gettext will extract the text from the image. Notice that it is compiled only when tesseract ocr is correctly installed.
Words and the list of those text elements with their confidence values. Org opencv text ocrtesseract public class ocrtesseract extends baseocr ocrtesseract class provides an interface with the tesseract ocr api v3 02 02 in c. The opencv library has an ocrtesseract class which gives more information other than text such as the location of text on the image and confidence score which can be useful. Coming next we will tell cmake to find the libraries packages we need for our project.
Using tesseract with opencv s east detector makes for a great combination. Takes image on input and returns recognized text in the output text parameter. As of 2018 it now includes built in deep learning capability making it a robust ocr tool just keep in mind that no ocr system is perfect. First opencv is easy since we used cmake to install it before.
Tesseract was developed as a proprietary software by hewlett packard labs. Recognize text using the tesseract ocr api. Here we are using tesseract provided image library to load the image. G o3 std c 11 basic ocr cpp pkg config cflags libs tesseract opencv o basic ocr the above command assumes that you named the c file basic ocr cpp.
In today s post we will learn how to recognize text in images using an open source tool called tesseract and opencv. Find package opencv required tesseract on the other hand is a little bit trickier. Demo using opencv library. Once activated we can use pip to install the remaining dependencies.