Script to store the text in an image to a text file added

Author: namrun

image-to-text.py

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+#Imports and dependencies
+#These packages are used for OCR(Optical character recognition)
+import pytesseract
+from PIL import Image
+import sys
+
+'''The script can be run by passing the path of the image as a Command Line argument as,
+
+    python3 image-to-text.py "/path_of_image"
+
+'''
+
+def convert_image_to_text(image_path):
+    text = ""
+    #image_path = input("Enter the path of the image: ")
+    text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(image_path))
+    with open("Text_in_the_image.txt", "w") as file:
+        file.write(text)
+    return("Text in the image is successfully written to a text file in the same directory")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    print(convert_image_to_text(sys.argv[1]))