EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages

Post by ramraj07 » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 5:22 AM UTC

D13Fd wrote: post #60

driverdan wrote: post #36

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Why does it have to be Python based? You can call out to other processes or services. Tesseract[1], for example, is pretty easy to work with. 1: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

It doesn't need to be Python. Tesseract is what I ended up using, IIRC. But I was looking for a turnkey package that would work from beginning to end. I wasn't doing anything unusual, and my app wasn't OCR-focused. I just wanted easy drop-in OCR for documents. Tesseract is more like getting a pretty good motor for free (recognizing text), but it's up to you to build the rest of the car around it (preprocessing images…

Post by nelcevest » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 8:00 PM UTC

barbs wrote: post #70

Has anyone made a desktop app with a really simple UI for detecting text in images? I'm thinking something that lives in the taskbar, lets you make a box around the text you want to read, and then returns it as plaintext? In my job as a support engineer I sometimes get screenshots of complex technical configurations and end up having to type them in one character at a time, so this would be really handy. Looks like m…