What is the image to string function in pytesseract?
In this recipe, we will see what is the image to string function in pytesseract with example
Recipe Objective - What is the "image_to_string" function in pytesseract? Explain with example?
The "image_to_string" function returns the unmodified output as a string from Tesseract OCR processing.
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Example:-
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:/Users/Dell/AppData/Local/Tesseract-OCR/tesseract.exe'
# Simple image to string
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('test.png')))
# French text image to string
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('test-european.jpg'), lang='fra'))
# # Batch processing with a single file containing the list of multiple image file paths
# print(pytesseract.image_to_string('images.txt'))
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