Day #101 - OCR and Python

pytesseract installation steps

1. Download for windows https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/4.0-with-LSTM#400-alpha-for-windows
2. Installed - Windows Installer made with MinGW-w64 from UB Mannheim
3. This post was useful - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34225927/pytesseract-cannot-find-the-file-specified
4. Pip install of pytesseract
5. Created Env Variable - TESSDATA_PREFIX=C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR

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RNN for OCR

	import sys
	import cv2
	import numpy as np
	import pytesseract
	from PIL import Image
	img = Image.open("E:\\RNotes\\ML_AI_Projs\\12.jpg")
	pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = "C:\\opencv\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract"
	print(pytesseract.image_to_string(img))

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Happy Learning!!!