Image to Text

Using Tesseract.

Install Tesseract

Windows:

1. Download Tesseract at UB Mannheim & install.

2. Add the executable file in your code. Like:

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

Linux:

Step 1: Update your system:

sudo apt update

Step 2: Add Tesseract OCR 5 PPA to your system:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-p/tesseract-ocr or, sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-p/tesseract-ocr-devel

Step 3: Install Tesseract on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install -y tesseract-ocr

Step 4: Confirm the Tesseract version installed.

tesseract --version

Install python package

pip install pillow pytesseract

Thank you.