Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

BIG news to share today! I’m so incredibly excited to announce that my OCR with Tesseract, OpenCV, and Python IndieGoGo campaign is set to launch in exactly one week on Wednesday, August 19th at 10AM EDT. (Note: This campaign has…

In this tutorial, you will create an automatic Sudoku puzzle solver using OpenCV, Deep Learning, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR and Sudoku solving algorithms demand diverse and complex data. A comprehensive dataset ensures that these algorithms are tested against…

In this tutorial, you will learn how to OCR non-English languages using the Tesseract OCR engine. If you refer to my previous Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tutorials on the PyImageSearch blog, you’ll note that all of the OCR text is…

In this tutorial, you will learn how to utilize Tesseract to detect, localize, and OCR text, all within a single, efficient function call. Back in September, I showed you how to use OpenCV to detect and OCR text. This method…

Last Updated on July 5, 2021 In this tutorial, you will learn how to apply OpenCV OCR (Optical Character Recognition). We will perform both (1) text detection and (2) text recognition using OpenCV, Python, and Tesseract. A few weeks ago…

Last updated on July 7, 2021. In this tutorial you will learn how to use OpenCV to detect text in natural scene images using the EAST text detector. OpenCV’s EAST text detector is a deep learning model, based on a…

Today’s blog post is Part II in our two part series on OCR’ing bank check account and routing numbers using OpenCV, Python, and computer vision techniques. Last week we learned how to extract MICR E-13B digits and symbols from input…

Today’s blog post is inspired by Li Wei, a PyImageSearch reader who emailed me last week and asked: Hi Adrian, Thank you for the PyImageSearch blog. I read it each week and look forward to your new posts every Monday.…

Today’s blog post is a continuation of our recent series on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and computer vision. In a previous blog post, we learned how to install the Tesseract binary and use it for OCR. We then learned how…