How OCR works| Text extraction from image| OCR Tesseract| OpenCV Python

Опубликовано: 14 Март 2026
на канале: Ponshankar Palanivel
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This How OCR works| Text extraction from image| OCR Tesseract| OpenCV Python video would help you guys understand how text can be extracted from image using python. It will walk you through the end to end set up of OCR engine (Google Tesseract) and OpenCV (Computer Vision) in python environment for text extraction.

This Optical Character Recognition tutorial will be a step by step hands on session using python. It will also help you guys understand what OCR is, and its application in various fields.

Video Content:

00:00 – What is OCR?
00:28 – OCR applications / usage
01:17 – Hands on session plan
01:47 – Python brief
02:07 – Google Tesseract brief
02:22 – OpenCV brief
02:33 – Google Tesseract installation
02:46 – pytesseract and opencv library installation
03:06 – PDF text extraction using python
04:42 – Convert handwriting to digital text
05:07 – Fine tuning to improve OCR accuracy
07:58 – Thank you note

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Twitter: (@PonshankarP): https://twitter.com/PonshankarP?s=09

Useful Links:
Anaconda download link: https://www.anaconda.com/products/ind...
Google Tesseract: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesser...
PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

Please comment your questions below, and I will try my best to clarify it.

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