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(To get the latest version of Tesseract, go to the Tesseract at UB Mannheim web page.)

On Windows, you can download the installer for version 5.0.0 of Tesseract and run the installer. (You can learn about the PATH environment variable in Chapter 2 of my free book, Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python.) Let's install the Tesseract OCR engine itself next. If you need help running pip, see A Quick Pip Guide or What Is Pip? A Guide for New Pythonistas.Īt this point, if you tried to use the pytesseract module, you'd get a TesseractNotFoundError message that says, tesseract is not installed or it's not in your path. The pytesseract package is a Python wrapper for the Tesseract OCR engine. Installing Tesseractįirst, run pip install pytesseract. This blog post will simply show you the code to do OCR from Python. Cleaning up your OCR scans depends on your particular project.

The "CONGRATULATIONS" at the top is mistakenly placed at the bottom, the word "NOW" is recognized as "NOL", the word "IS" has a vertical pipe character "|" instead of a capital "I", and there seems to be some confusing punctuation marks added in. Notice that the text recognition isn't quite perfect. "DO NOT PET”\nWARNINGS ON AIRPORT SECURITY DOGS.\n\n= CONGRATULATIONS,\n\n \n\n \n\x0c' IF YOU DEFEAT\nTHEM ALL, THE THRONE |S YOURS.\n\n* YOU MAY NOL IGNORE.

GROCERY STORE EXPRESS\nLANES WITH ANY NUMBER OF ITEMS.\n\n+ ALL GRADUATES ARE ENTITLED To\nDELETE ONE WORD OF THEIR CHOICE.\nFROM THE OXFORD ENGUSH DICTIONARY.\n+ THE UNIVERSITY WILL MAIL YOU YOUR’\nWORKING LIGHTSABER WITHIN 6-8 WEEKS.\n* YOU CAN SEND MAIL WITHOUT STAMPS.\n+ YOU HAVE EARNED THE RIGHT TO\nCHALLENGE THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY\nTO TRIAL BY COMBAT. THESE INCLUDE:\n\n+ YOU MAY NOW LEGALLY PERFORM\nMARRIAGES AND ARREST PEOPLE.\n\n+ IF YOU HAVE YOUR DIPLOMA WITH YOU,\nYOU CAN USE. ' \n\n \n\nCLASS OF 2019!\n\nYOUR DIPLOMA GRANTS YOU MANY NEW\nPOWERS AND PRIVILEGES.

For example, if you have the following image stored in diploma_legal_notes.png, you can run OCR over it to extract the string of text. This blog post tells you how to run the Tesseract OCR engine from Python. Extracting text as string values from images is called optical character recognition (OCR) or simply text recognition.