How to get Word Count using Google Vision OCR API by Python?

Question

I want to scan a image document and graph the word from image and I also want to get the word count . Is this possible by using Google Vision API ?

I didn't seen any related information regarding word count within their documentation. If anybody achieved this before, please help me on this.

Answer 1

Adapted example from the sample available in codelabs :

from google.cloud import vision

def count_words(str):
    ls1 = str.split()
    return len(ls1)


image_uri = 'gs://cloud-vision-codelab/otter_crossing.jpg'

client = vision.ImageAnnotatorClient()
image = vision.types.Image()
image.source.image_uri = image_uri

response = client.text_detection(image=image)

for text in response.text_annotations:
    print(text.description)
    print(count_words(text.description))

Fair suggestion from my side: Give the other OCR libraries a shot as well.