Extracting Text from Images | Optical Character Recognition | OCR

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Ever wonder how to get text, letters, words from an image? Do you need code and necessary material to get through this topic? Well, look no further! I go over Optical Character Recognition at a high level, covering what you need to know and how to get started! You can even read a 10K, 10Q, and or an annual report with this method! Some neat engineering could save you quite some time and costs.

Research paper on Tesseract:
https://static.googleusercontent.com/...

Tesseract github for most up to date files:
https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesser...

OpenCV Morphological Transformations (Can look through the site for additional information):
https://docs.opencv.org/4.5.2/d9/d61/...

Check out this stackoverflow on interesting ways of text extraction!
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6...

Github of work: https://github.com/SpencerPao/Compute...

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0:00 - Optical Character Recognition
1:34 - Dependencies
3:20 - IRS Tax Example
6:56 - Indonesian passport example
8:53 - Stop Sign & Yield Sign
15:57 - PDF file(s) (10-k table) example



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