PDF Extraction using Tesseract

• About

An OCR project as a Proof of Concept to deploy a machine learning project using Streamlit. The text extraction process is accompanied with image processing for better text recognition and achieving higher efficiency.

• Libraries / Frameworks

  1. Streamlit - UI
  2. Tkinter - File download setup
  3. Pytesseract
  4. Pdf2Image
  5. OpenCV - Image Processing

• Code Execution

  1. Make sure you have Python 3.8 installed on the system.
  2. Open cmd where the contents are unzipped.
  3. Run the below command to install required packages.

     pip install -r requirements.txt

  4. Install Tesseract setup file
  5. Once all packages are installed, run the following command:

     streamlit run OCR.py

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• Output

Bounding Box around recognized text

Text extraction and document saved

Extracted Text Output