And being a BSD-licensed product, OpenCV comes in handy for businesses to utilize and modify the code. Besides this, it also accelerates the use of machine perception in commercial products. OpenCV was built to furnish a common infrastructure for computer vision applications. OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library), as the name suggests, is an open source computer vision and a machine learning software library. Follow the table given below for different OCR engine modes: OCR engine modeīy Default, based on what is currently available Tesseract 4 has introduced an additional LSTM neutral net mode that works the best. Treat the image as a single text line, bypass hack by Tesseract-specific.Įngine Mode (-OEM): Tesseract has several engine modes with different performance and speed. Find as much text as possible not in a particular order To treat the image as a single word in a circle Presume a single column of text of variable sizesĪssume a single uniform block that has a vertically aligned text Orientation and script detection (OSD) onlyĪutomatic page segmentation, but no OSD, or OCRįully automatic page segmentation, but no OSD (Default) You can choose the one that works best for your requirement from the table given below: mode Page Segmentation Mode (-psm): By configuring this, you can assist Tesseract in how it should split an image in the form of texts. The different configuration parameters for Tesseract are mentioned below: Tesseract fully automates the page segmentation but it does not perform orientation and script detection. You can do it by assigning -psm mode to it. You can configure Tesseract’s different segmentations if you are interested in capturing a small region of text from the image. The Tesseract input image in LSM is processed in boxes (rectangle) line by line that inserts into the LSTM model and gives the output.īy default, Tesseract considers the input image as a page of text in segments. Text that has arbitrary length and a sequence of characters is solved using Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Long short-term memory (LSTM) where LSTM is a popular form of RNN. These days people typically use a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to recognize an image that contains a single character. Talking about the Tesseract 4.00, it has a configured text line recognizer in its new neural network subsystem. Below is the visual representation of the Tesseract OCR architecture as represented in the Voting-Based OCR System research paper. It is used to recognize text from a large document, or it can also be used to recognize text from an image of a single text line. In this blog, I’ll be using the Python wrapper named by tesseract. It is through wrappers that Tesseract can be made compatible with different programming languages and frameworks. The best part is that it supports an extensive variety of languages. You can use it directly or can use the API to extract the printed text from images. In the year 2006, Tesseract was considered as one of the most accurate open-source OCR engines. Tesseract is an open-source text recognition engine that is available under the Apache 2.0 license and its development has been sponsored by Google since 2006. This blog majorly focuses on the OCR’s application areas using Tesseract OCR, OpenCV, installation & environment setup, coding, and limitations of Tesseract. Automating the task of extracting text from images will help you to maintain and to analyze records. And just like always, with automation, you can take this to the next level. This time I am going to elaborate more on OCR especially about extracting information from an image. As promised to my readers, I am back with my second blog. In my previous blog, I explained the basics of OCR and 3 important things that you should be aware of about OCR. And this is exactly where Optical Character Recognition comes in the picture. They only understand information that is organized. However, computers don’t function similarly. You can recognize the text on the image and can understand it without much difficulty. It is easy for humans to understand the contents of an image by just looking at it.
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