It is possible to extract text from within images using the pytesseract library. In this recipe, we will use pytesseract to extract text from an image. Tesseract is an open source OCR library sponsored by Google. The source is available here: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract, and you can also find more information on the library there. 0;pytesseract is a thin python wrapper that provides a pythonic API to the executable.
Performing OCR on an image with pytesseract
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