Getting Text from Images with Python

Adventures with OCR!

1. Download the goods

brew install tesseract

1. Create and activate virtual environment

python3 -m venv ocr-env
source ocr-virt/bin/activate
source ocr-env/bin/activate

1. Pip install pytesseract (which should also download PIL – Python Image Library)

pip install pytesseract

RUN TEST:

try:
    from PIL import Image
except ImportError:
    import Image
import pytesseract

print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('crime.jpg')))