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OCR with PyTesseract and Python

By Alaa El-Maria
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Repository
https://github.com/Alaatahaelmaria/OCR-with-pytesseract-and-python
Tech
Python, OpenCV, PyTesseract
ocr project

This repository demonstrates a minimal OCR pipeline: image preprocessing, text region handling, and recognition using Tesseract via the pytesseract bindings.


Highlights

  • Cleans and binarizes images for higher OCR accuracy.
  • Supports language selection and page segmentation modes.
  • Extracts text blocks with bounding boxes for inspection.

Getting started

pip install -r requirements.txt
python ocr.py --image input.jpg

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