findthosewords

A program to detect text in images

Requirements

• opencv
• pytesseract

There are three test images in the assets folder

This project is inspired by a video from Murtaza's Workshop YouTube channel

Installation & Usage

1. Install dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
   • If this doesn't work, try installing the libraries pillow, pytesseract, and opencv-python manually one-by-one
2. Use the command python main.py [path_to_image_file] to get the image alongwith the identified text

Make sure you have tesseract installed.

• On Linux, do apt install tesseract-ocr
• On Windows, download the binary from https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

Refer the pytesseract docs for more information