A Beginner’s Guide to Tesseract OCR

Optical character recognition with Tesseract and Python

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This article is a step-by-step tutorial in using Tesseract OCR to recognize characters from images using Python. Due to the nature of Tesseract’s training dataset, digital character recognition is preferred, although Tesseract OCR can also be used for handwriting recognition. Tesseract OCR is an open-source…