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Created November 25, 2024 09:32
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Script to extract text from an image file, mostly for screenshots
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image_to_text.py
from PIL import Image
from pytesseract import pytesseract
img = Image.open(path_to_file)
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
print(text)
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used brew install tesseract to install tesseract on MacOS

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