image recognition using pytesseract python

Question

i have a image but it is unable to get the price this is what i have

import pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract'
print(pytesseract.image_to_string("local-filename.jpg"))

output

Nestle Bakers’
Choice Melts
290g/

Choc Bits
200g


Altimate
Salted Caramel
Waffle Cones
12's


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.

FruitCo Juice 2 Litres
‘Apple/ Apricot/ Apple, Mange,
‘Banana/ Apple Pea

Cottee’s Jams

Betty Crocker Triple
500g

Sanitarium Weet-bix
750g Chocolate Muffin Mix 500g

 

Ss
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s

Authentic Thai

; Sweet Chili Sauce
Vanilla em, ‘ 725ml

Dell

cours ® ‘OCOMUT HE


Sandhurst Coconut Milk

Chelsea Berry/ Vanilla
400m!

Icing Sugar 3759

  


Process finished with exit code 0

and this is the image i'am trying to analyze

-what i need is the price of the image with the corresponding name -i am able to extract the name of the product but unable to get the price -how can i achieve this any help would be appreciated please note i am very new at image processing

Answer 1

tried two options:

1. easyocr installed through !pip install easyocr
2. tesseract installed through(on mac) brew install tesseract

here are the results:

1. full image, both easyocr and tesseract did not gave the price.
2. took only the price circle
   

image = cv2.imread('795.png')
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(sk1)) # printed spaces i.e no result

import easyocr
reader = easyocr.Reader(['en'],gpu = False) #  load model into memory once
result = reader.readtext(image,detail=0) # resul ['s7.95', 'cach']

easyocr worked better!!

next on image with product description

image = cv2.imread('795 Product.png')
reader.readtext(image,detail=0)
'''
['Nestle',
 'eaa',
 'Nestle',
 'RuS',
 'aa',
 'melts',
 'PARKCHOC',
 'chocbts',
 'Nestle Bakers',
 'S',
 'Choice Melts',
 '290g/',
 'cach',
 'Choc Bits',
 '200g',
 'Nestle',
 '"8628',
 'nelts',
 '(Neste)',
 'JTE CHOC',
 '7.95']
'''
print(pytesseract.image_to_string(image))
'''
Nestle Bakers’
Choice Melts
290g/

Choc Bits
200g
'''

easyocr worked better on these images.

You would need to explore which option you would want to forward with. you can also try the recommendation provided by @nathancy How to process and extract text from image by

Answer 2

Google Vision API gives the best results. Google cloud offers 300$ free credits to every user.

Below is the code snippet for the same.

def detect_text(path):
    """Detects text in the file."""
    from google.cloud import vision
    import io
    client = vision.ImageAnnotatorClient()

    with io.open(path, 'rb') as image_file:
        content = image_file.read()

    image = vision.Image(content=content)

    response = client.text_detection(image=image)
    texts = response.text_annotations
    print('Texts:')

    for text in texts:
        print('\n"{}"'.format(text.description))

        vertices = (['({},{})'.format(vertex.x, vertex.y)
                    for vertex in text.bounding_poly.vertices])

        print('bounds: {}'.format(','.join(vertices)))

    if response.error.message:
        raise Exception(
            '{}\nFor more info on error messages, check: '
            'https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/errors'.format(
                response.error.message))