Getting the bounding box of the recognized words using python-tesseract

Question

I am using python-tesseract to extract words from an image. This is a python wrapper for tesseract which is an OCR code.

I am using the following code for getting th

Answer 1

To get bounding boxes over words:

import cv2
import pytesseract
img = cv2.imread('/home/gautam/Desktop/python/ocr/SEAGATE/SEAGATE-01.jpg')

from pytesseract import Output
d = pytesseract.image_to_data(img, output_type=Output.DICT)
n_boxes = len(d['level'])
for i in range(n_boxes):
    if(d['text'][i] != ""):
        (x, y, w, h) = (d['left'][i], d['top'][i], d['width'][i], d['height'][i])
        cv2.rectangle(img, (x, y), (x + w, y + h), (0, 255, 0), 2)

cv2.imwrite('result.png', img)