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"# installing required librareis\n",
"!sudo apt install tesseract-ocr\n",
"!pip install pytesseract"
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"#making the necessary imports\n",
"import pytesseract\n",
"from pytesseract import image_to_string\n",
"from PIL import Image"
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"outputs": []
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"source": [
"used image :\n",
"\n",
"![alt text](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1VktTQUEevEy1pF6UWfKx9mvQSpDlCj1U)"
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"source": [
"# extracting content from the image\n",
"extractedInformation = image_to_string(Image.open(\"Pytesseract.png\"))\n",
"extractedInformation"
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"execution_count": 8,
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"'Pytesseract: Get started with OCR. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a system\\nthat provides a full alphanumeric character recognition on an image. The system allows\\nextracting text from an image, to convert it later into an editable file. may 21, 2019'"
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"source": [
"As you can see the output seems to be quiet good."
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}
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