How do I extract only the digits of an image in Python?

1 Answer

1. Convert image to grayscale and Otsu’s threshold.
2. Perform morph close with a horizontal kernel to merge the numbers into a single contour.
3. Find contours and filter using a minimum threshold area to filter out the large outer contour.
4. Sort by largest contour area which should be the desired text contour.

How do I extract specific data from an image in Python?

Explanation:

1. Import all the required libraries (opencv, tkinter, tesseract)
2. Provide the location of the tesseract.exe file.
3. Tkinter provides GUI functionalities: open an image dialog box so user can upload an image.
4. Let’s jump to the extract function which takes the path of the image as a parameter.

How do I extract text from multiple images in python?

Python extract text from multiple images in folder….Python OCR(Optical Character Recognition) for PDF

1. open the PDF file with wand / imagemagick.
2. convert the PDF to images.
3. read images one by one and extract the text with pytesseract / tesserct-ocr.

What is EasyOCR?

EasyOCR is a python package that allows the image to be converted to text. It is by far the easiest way to implement OCR and has access to over 70+ languages including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, many more are being added. EasyOCR is created by the Jaided AI company.

How do I extract text from an image?

Extract text from a single picture

1. Right-click the picture, and click Copy Text from Picture.
2. Click where you’d like to paste the copied text, and then press Ctrl+V.

How can I capture text from an image?

You can capture text from a scanned image, upload your image file from your computer, or take a screenshot on your desktop. Then simply right click on the image, and select Grab Text.