OCR Text Extraction Script

The script extracts text from images using Tesseract OCR and saves it to a text file. This has been written in Python and uses the pytesseract and Pillow libraries.

I created this to extract texts from my Reddit screenshots :P

Requirements

1. Tesseract OCR:
   • Install Tesseract OCR and its language data files.
2. Python Libraries:
   • pytesseract: A Python wrapper for Tesseract OCR.
   • Pillow: Python Imaging Library which will be used for opening and manipulating images.

Installation

Step 1: Install Tesseract OCR

On Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S tesseract tesseract-data-eng

On Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

On macOS (Using homebrew)

brew install tesseract

Step 2: Install Python Libraries Using pip

pip install pytesseract pillow

Usage

Step 1: create an image directory

mkdir image

Step 2 : Copy the images to be scanned inside image directory

Step 3 : Run script.py

python3 script.py