Image OCR with PyTesseract and Pillow

This function uses the PyTesseract library and the Pillow library to extract text from images. It first opens the image using Pillow, and then performs optical character recognition using PyTesseract.

Technology Stack : PyTesseract, Pillow

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def ocr_image_to_text(image_path):
    from PIL import Image
    import pytesseract

    # Open the image file
    image = Image.open(image_path)
    
    # Use PyTesseract to do OCR on the image
    text = pytesseract.image_to_string(image)
    
    return text