script name

imageText.py

Description

• imageText.py will extract text from a given image. The text will be saved in the file specified by user

Installation

• we are going to need several modules to run this example
• we need to install tesseract-ocr on our system

On linux do the following:
	sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
	sudo apt-get install libtesseract-dev

If you are on windows download the tesseract executable from their website After installing tesseract on the system ,install the package through pip

pip install pytesseract

on linux thats all you have to do to start using the tesseract On windows one more step is required: we have to tell python where tesseract is installed ie Program files

import pytesseract
	pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\\Program Files\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe'

To run the program:

make sure all the modules are installed on your system The script should be run on python3

• on the Terminal do the following

$python3 imageText.py

The system will then guide you. Enter the filename to save the text and also specify the path to the image