OCR from handwriting in image

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Hi, Looking through the posts I can not seem to find any recent topics on OCR from images.

Can anyone point me at features that might be able to distinguish the handwritten text for instance in the attached image ?

Thanks
Mark

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Hello @mgirdwood,

I am not too familiar with OCR, but your best bet to accomplish what you are looking for is to use the python node. A high level overview of what you may do is:

Image Reader → Python Script → Extracted text → other processing steps

I looked into it, and it looks like there is a open source library for OCR which you can import into python using ‘import pytesseract’

I would take a look at their documentation for usage. It looks like you just need to provide path of the image and then call on ‘image_to_string’ providing the image as input.

pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('test.png')

Hope this helps,
TL

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Thanks Thor, I will take a look and see if I can use that approach.
Mark

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