PYTHON - Text Recognition

A Python-based Optical Character Recognition (OCR) project that extracts and recognizes text from images using the Tesseract OCR engine wrapped via pytesseract.

Features

• Extracts text from image files (PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF)
• Uses Google's Tesseract-OCR engine under the hood
• Simple and lightweight script, easy to run locally
• Supports multiple image formats via the Pillow imaging library

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• pytesseract
• Pillow
• Tesseract-OCR installed on your system

Installation

1. Install Tesseract OCR on your system:

   • Windows: Download the installer from the official Tesseract GitHub page and run it
   • macOS: Run brew install tesseract
   • Linux (Debian/Ubuntu): Run sudo apt install tesseract-ocr

2. Install Python dependencies: pip install pytesseract Pillow

3. If Tesseract is not in your system PATH (Windows especially), set the path inside the script: pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'

Usage

Run the script and provide an image file path:

python textrecog.py

The recognized text from the image will be printed to the console.

Project Structure

PYTHON/
  textrecog.py   - Main OCR script
  python/        - Supporting files or additional scripts
  README.md      - Project documentation