https://github.com/devashishprasad/embossed-text-reader

This is a tesseract based OCR to read Embossed text on metals. It can also be use as a general OCR.
https://github.com/devashishprasad/embossed-text-reader

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This is a tesseract based OCR to read Embossed text on metals. It can also be use as a general OCR.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/devashishprasad/embossed-text-reader
Owner: DevashishPrasad
Created: 2018-06-28T06:48:00.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2021-05-06T04:27:54.000Z (about 4 years ago)
Last Synced: 2025-04-14T00:12:58.031Z (about 1 month ago)
Topics: ocr, opencv-python, opencv3, python, python3
Language: Python
Size: 21.2 MB
Stars: 31
Watchers: 3
Forks: 12
Open Issues: 3
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md

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# Embossed-Text-Reader
This is a tesseract based OCR to read Embossed text on metals. It can also be use as a general OCR.

This is not generalized solution. The satements and parameters of some funtions will changed according to the texture,
color, lighting effect and visibility of text of image.

Tesseract is an open-sourced OCR which is capable of reading text from papers, pdfs and other clean formats. Tesseract fails when
tried to perform OCR on noisy and dirty images (for eg. Embossed or Engraved text). The code uses opencv image filtering techniques
to filter the images as clean as possible and then feeds it to Tesseract.

## Dependencies
Python

OpenCV

Tesseract

Numpy

imutils

### There are three files -
1. picture_from_webcam.py clicks a single picture from webcam and performs OCR on it
2. read_from_disk.py loads a picture from an image file
3. video_from_webcam.py feeds the realtime video from the webcam (doesn't perform as expected)

## Example
#### Edged image (canny) with dialation
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