Optical Character Reader or Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technique used to convert the text in visuals to machine-encoded text. These visuals could be printed documents(invoices, bank statements, restaurant bills), or placards(sign-boards, traffic symbols ), or handwritten text. Converting these visuals to text could be handy for information extraction, scanning books or documents and making PDFs, storing in the system or working with it on-line such as text to speech(this could be of great help to visually impaired people), used widely in autonomous vehicles to interpret various things. OCR is an emerging technology which is enhancing for better accuracy in performance.

EasyOCR is a python package that allows the image to be converted to text. It is by far the easiest way to implement OCR and has access to over 70+ languages including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, many more are being added. EasyOCR is created by the Jaided AI company.

In this article, we will be discussing how to implement OCR using EasyOCR. Let’s start by discussing EasyOCR and installing it for our use.

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