Introduce

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process that converts an image of text into a machine-readable text format. For example, if you scan a form or a receipt, your computer saves the scan as an image file. You cannot use a text editor to edit, search, or count the words in the image file. However, you can use OCR to convert the image into a text document with its contents stored as text data.

Tech Stack 🛠

The project is built on

Language:

• Python

Library:

• OpenCV

Framework

• PyQt5

Getting Started 👩‍💻

I. Set Up ⚙️

Before beginning to work the project make sure you have git downloaded on your computer

Then, you must open git and git clone the repo to your computer:

git clone https://github.com/khanhnguyentuann/recognize-text-from-image-using-ocr.git
cd recognize-text-from-image-using-ocr

II. Installing

1. Python

You can download the latest version here: https://www.python.org/

2. pytesseract

Steps of Installation:
1. Install tesseract using windows installer available at: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki
2. Note the tesseract path from the installation. At the time of this edit, the default installation path was: "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR" It may change, so please check the installation path.
3. pip install pytesseract
4. Set the tesseract path in the script (in the file image_processing.py)
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'

3. Opencv

pip install opencv-python

4. PyQt5

pip install PyQt5

III. Run 🔥

python main.py

IV. Note 📝

a. File 'main.py': Contains the code to run the application, it will import the controller package and call the function that creates the main window.

b. Package 'model': Contains all the code related to the application's data model.

• file 'init.py': This file is empty and the model directory containing it will be treated as a package by python.
• file 'image_processing.py': Contains all the code related to image processing and text extraction using pytesseract.

c. Package 'view': Contains all the code related to the application's user interface.

• file 'init.py': This file is empty and the model directory containing it will be treated as a package by python.
• file 'main_window.py': Contains codes related to creating and setting up the main window of the application.

d. Package 'controller': Contains all the code involved in handling user interaction and updates the model and view accordingly.

• file 'init.py': This file is empty and the model directory containing it will be treated as a package by python.
• file 'text_extractor.py': Contains code to connect controller and view together and handle user interaction

e. Directory: 'resources': Contains all resources such as icons used by the application, images used to extract text.

• folder: 'icons': Contains icons used by the application such as uploading, extracting and copying icons.
• folder: 'images': Contains images used to extract text