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Solving (simple) Captcha, using PyTesseract, PIL, and Python 3
#!/usr/bin/python3
# coding: utf-8
import pytesseract
import os
import argparse
try:
import Image, ImageOps, ImageEnhance, imread
except ImportError:
from PIL import Image, ImageOps, ImageEnhance
def solve_captcha(path):
"""
Convert a captcha image into a text,
using PyTesseract Python-wrapper for Tesseract
Arguments:
path (str):
path to the image to be processed
Return:
'textualized' image
"""
image = Image.open(path).convert('RGB')
image = ImageOps.autocontrast(image)
filename = "{}.png".format(os.getpid())
image.save(filename)
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(filename))
return text
if __name__ == '__main__':
argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
argparser.add_argument("-i", "--image", required=True, help="path to input image to be OCR'd")
args = vars(argparser.parse_args())
path = args["image"]
print('-- Resolving')
captcha_text = solve_captcha(path)
print('-- Result: {}'.format(captcha_text))
@deangelo200

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im going to try this today loll.

@fnipo

fnipo commented Jun 25, 2021

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doesn't work even for easy captchas

@elizatlawy

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Not working

@przemmaj

przemmaj commented Oct 9, 2021

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Good enough. Working for simple captchas. Thanks.

@whidy

whidy commented Nov 28, 2023

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Can only recognize some simple graphic/digit numbers, such as

captcha-solver

but, this image below failed:

text

@fukemy

fukemy commented Nov 1, 2024

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pytesseract is bad for capcha resolver

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