Project 6a - Object detection II, OCR

Project start: 4 January 2022

Project finish: 10 January 2022

Objective: to use optical character recognition (OCR) software to read a vehicle licence plate from an image that has been cropped so it is the only object in the image

The software employed is called pytesseract.

installation:

outside VEnv:

cd $HOME

sudo apt-get install libleptonica-dev
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr 
sudo apt-get install libtesseract-dev

edit the .bashrc file which is a hidden file in the HOME directory:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:~/home/james/Public/Projects/myPython36VEnv/bin"

inside VEnv:

(myPython36VEnv) james@myB01:~/Public/Projects$ pip3 install -U pytesseract

The following .zip file contains a Jupyter Notebook program and a test image (to run Jupyter Notebook, type jupyter-notebook):

james@myB01:~/Public/Projects/project_6a$ tree -L 2

├── project_6a_V1.ipynb

└── test_images

└── bc_licence_plate_V0.jpg

project_6a_V1_program_and_image.zip

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If you have any problems or need clarification please contact me: jscanova@gmail.com