Pseudo date/time detector

detect.py

import cv2
import dateutil.parser
import PIL
import pytesseract

# brew install ffmpeg
# brew install tesseract
# pip install opencv-contrib-python pytesseract imutils python-dateutil

def is_date(value: str) -> bool:
    try: 
        dateutil.parser.parse(value, fuzzy=True)
        return True
    except ValueError:
        return False

image = cv2.imread('example_image_path')
image = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

data = pytesseract.image_to_data(PIL.Image.fromarray(image), output_type=pytesseract.Output.DICT)

for i, text in enumerate(data['text']):
    if (is_date(text)):
        (x, y, w, h) = (data['left'][i], data['top'][i], data['width'][i], data['height'][i])
        cv2.rectangle(image, (x, y), (x + w, y + h), (0, 255, 0), 2)

cv2.imshow('image', image)

cv2.waitKey(0)