Optical Character Recognition(OCR)-Tesseract

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION

PLATFORM	HOW TO
WINDOWS	download binaries for windows
LINUX	Tesseract is included in most Linux distributions. ("sudo apt install tesseract-ocr")

FILE -> PROJECT INTERPRETER -> install pytesseract package

import pytesseract

While you're working with pytesseract, your src image should be in RBG format not BGR.

EACH CHARACTER

Drawing Rectangle and Recognizing each Character

import cv2
import pytesseract


img = cv2.imread("1.png")
imgRGB = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(imgRGB))
cv2.imshow("Output", imgRGB)


cv2.waitKey(0) 

EACH WORD

import cv2
import pytesseract

img = cv2.imread("1.png")
img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
hImg, wImg, _ = img.shape
listOfPoints = pytesseract.image_to_boxes(img)

for b in listOfPoints.splitlines():
    b = b.split(' ')
    print(b)
    x,y,w,h = int(b[1]), int(b[2]), int(b[3]), int(b[4])
    cv2.rectangle(img, (x, hImg-y), (w, hImg-h), (0,0,255), 3)
    cv2.putText(img, b[0], (x, hImg-y+25), cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_COMPLEX, 1, (50,50,255), 2)

cv2.imshow("Output", img)
cv2.waitKey(0)