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Open bodacea opened 4 years ago

bodacea commented 4 years ago

Howto OCR an image quickly:

Online image:

use the bing.com or yandex.com image searchbars - both of these will OCR the text for you

Image file:

drop the image into the bing.com searchbar
drop the image into the yandex.com image searchbar
upload the image to Google drive, then open it in docs. Google will OCR it for you.
Use tesseract https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Training-Tesseract.html (or pytesseract)