Use pytesseract OCR to recognize text from an image

Question

I need to use Pytesseract to extract text from this picture:

and the code:

from PIL import Image, ImageEnhance, ImageFilter
import pytesseract
         


        

Answer 1

To extract the text directly from the web, you can try the following implementation (making use of the first image):

import io
import requests
import pytesseract
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter, ImageEnhance

response = requests.get('https://i.stack.imgur.com/HWLay.gif')
img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(response.content))
img = img.convert('L')
img = img.filter(ImageFilter.MedianFilter())
enhancer = ImageEnhance.Contrast(img)
img = enhancer.enhance(2)
img = img.convert('1')
img.save('image.jpg')
imagetext = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
print(imagetext)