Merge pull request #18 from Namyalg/Image-to-Text

Image to Text

Author: yashaswibiyahut

Image_to_text/README.md

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+## Image to text
+- This script can be used to convert extract the text in an image and store it in a text file
+- The concept of Optical Character Recognition is used
+- The pytesseract module has been used for the same
+
+## Working
+- Dependencies and Installs:
+    - pip install pytesseract
+- To run the script :
+    - python3 image-to-text.py "path to image"
+
+- Considering an example :
+
+- This is the image 
+![Image](assets/image.PNG)
+
+- On running the script
+![Image](assets/script.PNG)
+
+- This is the text file that has the extracted text from the image
+![Image](assets/text.PNG)

Image_to_text/Text_in_the_image.txt

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+‘Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software in which source code is released under a license in which
+the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any
+purpose.!"! Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative public manner. Open-source software is a
+prominent example of open collaboration.

Image_to_text/assets/image.PNG

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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]))