Image to Text Extraction with Pillow and PyTesseract

This function uses the Pillow library to open an image file and the PyTesseract library to extract text from the image.

Technology Stack : Pillow, PyTesseract

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def extract_text_from_image(image_path):
    from PIL import Image
    from pytesseract import image_to_string

    # Open the image file
    image = Image.open(image_path)

    # Use PyTesseract to extract text from the image
    text = image_to_string(image)

    return text