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…

Last updated on Feb 13, 2024. In last week’s blog post we learned how to install the Tesseract binary for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). We then applied the Tesseract program to test and evaluate the performance of the OCR engine…

Today’s blog post is part one in a two part series on installing and using the Tesseract library for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR is the automatic process of converting typed, handwritten, or printed text to machine-encoded text that we…

Today’s tutorial is inspired by a post I saw a few weeks back on /r/computervision asking how to recognize digits in an image containing a thermostat identical to the one at the top of this post. As Reddit users were…

Today’s blog post wouldn’t be possible without PyImageSearch Gurus member, Hans Boone. Hans is working on a computer vision project to automatically detect Machine-readable Zones (MRZs) in passport images — much like the region detected in the image above. The…