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In a previous tutorial, we implemented our very first OCR project. We saw that Tesseract worked well on some images but returned total nonsense for other examples. Part of being a successful OCR practitioner is learning that when you see…
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The first time I ever used the Tesseract optical character recognition (OCR) engine was in my college undergraduate years. A dataset comprising diverse textual images is necessary for an OCR project. It enables the OCR system to learn different text…
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In this tutorial, we will configure our development environment for OCR. Once your machine is configured, we’ll start writing Python code to perform OCR, paving the way for you to develop your own OCR applications. A text-image dataset is useful…
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Optical character recognition, or OCR for short, is used to describe algorithms and techniques (both electronic and mechanical) to convert images of text to machine-encoded text. We typically think of OCR in terms of software. Namely, these are systems that:…
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In this post, I interview Vince DiMascio, CIO/CTO of Berry Appleman & Leiden (BAL), a law firm specializing in corporate immigration. BAL is using computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to automatically classify immigration documents, thus helping expedite the…
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In this tutorial, you will build a basic Automatic License/Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system using OpenCV and Python. An ANPR-specific dataset, preferably with plates from various countries and in different conditions, is essential for training robust license plate recognition systems,…
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the EasyOCR package to easily perform Optical Character Recognition and text detection with Python. EasyOCR, as the name suggests, is a Python package that allows computer vision developers to effortlessly perform…
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to OCR a document, form, or invoice using Tesseract, OpenCV, and Python. Last week, we discussed how to accept an input image and align it to a template image, such as the following:…
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to perform image alignment and image registration using OpenCV. Image alignment and registration have a number of practical, real-world use cases, including: Medical: MRI scans, SPECT scans, and other medical scans produce multiple…
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