Project 4d - Tesseract (OCR) with CUDA support

Project start: 5 January 2022

Project finish: 6 January 2022

Last updated: 13 August 2022

Objective: Installation of Tesseract (pytesseract) for optical character recognition (OCR) with CUDA support in VEnv. This will be used in project 6 for reading license plates

I am not yet sure if Tesseract is available with CUDA support. I will provide an update when I find out.

outside VEnv:

cd $HOME

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50951955/pytesseract-tesseractnotfound-error-tesseract-is-not-installed-or-its-not-i

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

I added this 4 January 2022 to .bashrc:

export 
"/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
->Successfully installed pytesseract-0.3.8

In jupyter-notebook:

import pytesseract as pyOCR
print(pyOCR.__version__)
->0.3.8

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