/ocr-text-extraction

A simple program to extract the text from an image before performing OCR

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ocr-text-extraction

I am not actively supporting this script. It was just an experiment.

Processes an image to extract the text portions. Primarily used for pre-processing for performing OCR.

Implemented in Python using OpenCV.

Based on the paper "Font and Background Color Independent Text Binarization" by T Kasar, J Kumar and A G Ramakrishnan http://www.m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp/cbdar2007/proceedings/papers/O1-1.pdf

Copyright (c) 2012, Jason Funk jasonlfunk@gmail.com