To preprocess image for OCR, use any of the following python functions or follow the OpenCV documentation. Using Pytesseract, you can get the bounding box information for your OCR results using the following code. The script below will give you bounding box information for each character detected by tesseract during OCR. Want to digitize invoices, PDF s or number plates? Head over to Nanonets and build free online OCR models for free!

Using this dictionary, we can get each word detected, their bounding box information, the text in them and the confidence scores for each.

Take the example of trying to find where a date is in an image. Here our template will be a regular expression pattern that we will match with our OCR results to find the appropriate bounding boxes. There are several ways a page of text can be analysed. The tesseract api provides several page segmentation modes if you want to run OCR on only a small region or in different orientations, etc.

Default 4 Assume a single column of text of variable sizes. Find as much text as possible in no particular order. Treat the image as a single text line, bypassing hacks that are Tesseract-specific. To change your page segmentation mode, change the --psm argument in your custom config string to any of the above mentioned mode codes. You can detect the orientation of text in your image and also the script in which it is written. The following image - after running through the following code -.

Take this image for example - The text extracted from this image looks like this. Say you only want to detect certain characters from the given image and ignore the rest.

You can specify your whitelist of characters here, we have used all the lowercase characters from a to z only by using the following config. If you are sure some characters or expressions definitely will not turn up in your text the OCR will return wrong text in place of blacklisted characters otherwise , you can blacklist those characters by using the following config. where LANG is the three letter code for the language you need.

You can find out the LANG values here. You can download the. Note - Only languages that have a. traineddata file format are supported by tesseract. To specify the language you need your OCR output in, use the -l LANG argument in the config where LANG is the 3 letter code for what language you want to use.

Take this image for example - You can work with multiple languages by changing the LANG parameter as such -. Note - The language specified first to the -l parameter is the primary language. Unfortunately tesseract does not have a feature to detect language of the text in an image automatically.

An alternative solution is provided by another python module called langdetect which can be installed via pip. This module again, does not detect the language of text using an image but needs string input to detect the language from. The best way to do this is by first using tesseract to get OCR text in whatever languages you might feel are in there, using langdetect to find what languages are included in the OCR text and then run OCR again with the languages found.

The language codes used by langdetect follow ISO codes. To compare, please check this and this. We find that the language used in the text are english and spanish instead. Note - Tesseract performs badly when, in an image with multiple languages, the languages specified in the config are wrong or aren't mentioned at all.

This can mislead the langdetect module quite a bit as well. This repository contains fast integer versions of trained models for the Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine. Need to digitize documents, receipts or invoices but too lazy to code? Head over to Nanonets and build OCR models for free!

Neural networks require significantly more training data and train a lot slower than base Tesseract. For Latin-based languages, the existing model data provided has been trained on about text lines spanning about fonts. In order to successfully run the Tesseract 4. Visit github repo for files and tools. Even with all these new training data, therefore here are few options for training:. A guide on how to train on your custom data and create. traineddata files can be found here , here and here.

Tesseract works best when there is a clean segmentation of the foreground text from the background. In practice, it can be extremely challenging to guarantee these types of setup. There are a variety of reasons you might not get good quality output from Tesseract like if the image has noise on the background. The better the image quality size, contrast, lightning the better the recognition result. It requires a bit of preprocessing to improve the OCR results, images need to be scaled appropriately, have as much image contrast as possible, and the text must be horizontally aligned.

Tesseract OCR is quite powerful but does have the following limitations. The Nanonets OCR API allows you to build OCR models with ease. You do not have to worry about pre-processing your images or worry about matching templates or build rule based engines to increase the accuracy of your OCR model. You can upload your data, annotate it, set the model to train and wait for getting predictions through a browser based UI without writing a single line of code, worrying about GPUs or finding the right architectures for your deep learning models.

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A footnote in Microsoft's submission opens in new tab to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority CMA has let slip the reason behind Call of Duty's absence from the Xbox Game Pass library: Sony and Activision Blizzard have a deal that restricts the games' presence on the service.

The footnote appears in a section detailing the potential benefits to consumers from Microsoft's point of view of the Activision Blizzard catalogue coming to Game Pass.

What existing contractual obligations are those? Why, ones like the "agreement between Activision Blizzard and Sony," that places "restrictions on the ability of Activision Blizzard to place COD titles on Game Pass for a number of years".

It was apparently these kinds of agreements that Xbox's Phil Spencer had in mind opens in new tab when he spoke to Sony bosses in January and confirmed Microsoft's "intent to honor all existing agreements upon acquisition of Activision Blizzard".

Unfortunately, the footnote ends there, so there's not much in the way of detail about what these restrictions are or how long they'd remain in effect in a potential post-acquisition world. Given COD's continued non-appearance on Game Pass, you've got to imagine the restrictions are fairly significant if they're not an outright block on COD coming to the service.

Either way, the simple fact that Microsoft is apparently willing to maintain any restrictions on its own ability to put first-party games on Game Pass is rather remarkable, given that making Game Pass more appealing is one of the reasons for its acquisition spree. The irony of Sony making deals like this one while fretting about COD's future on PlayStation probably isn't lost on Microsoft's lawyers, which is no doubt part of why they brought it up to the CMA.

While it's absolutely reasonable to worry about a world in which more and more properties are concentrated in the hands of singular, giant megacorps, it does look a bit odd if you're complaining about losing access to games while stopping them from joining competing services. We'll find out if the CMA agrees when it completes its in-depth, "Phase 2" investigation opens in new tab into the Activision Blizzard acquisition, which is some way off yet.

For now, we'll have to content ourselves with poring over these kinds of corporate submissions for more interesting tidbits like this one. So far, we've already learned that Microsoft privately has a gloomy forecast for the future of cloud gaming opens in new tab , and that the company thinks Sony shouldn't worry so much since, hey, future COD games might be as underwhelming as Vanguard opens in new tab.

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