Tesseract and Pytesseract for OCR
Explore the fundamentals of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and learn to implement it using Tesseract, an open-source OCR engine, along with its Python wrapper Pytesseract. This lesson guides you through OCR processes and how to integrate them within a FastAPI-based API.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Introduction to OCR
The term OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. Optical Character Recognition deals with the problem of recognizing all the different handwritten and printed characters. These characters can be converted into a machine-readable, digital data format. OCR consists of several sub-processes to perform this operation in an efficient and accurate manner. ...