Image to Text Extraction Using Pillow and PyTesseract

This function uses the Pillow library to open an image and then uses the PyTesseract library to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract text from the image.

Technology Stack : Pillow, PyTesseract

Code Type : Python Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def extract_text_from_image(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

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