Real-time OCR with openCV EAST & Tesseract.
Requires openCV 3.4.2 or above.
Requires Tesseract 4.0 or above.
For text recognition on a live web-cam feed:
python real_time_ocr.py --east frozen_east_text_detection.pb
For text recognition on a video file:
python real_time_ocr.py --east frozen_east_text_detection.pb --video test.avi
For text detection on image:
python text_detection.py --image test.png --east frozen_east_text_detection.pb
For text detection on video or web-cam:
python video_text_detection.py --east frozen_east_text_detection.pb
python video_text_detection.py --east frozen_east_text_detection.pb --video test.avi
For text recognition on image:
python text_recognition.py --east frozen_east_text_detection.pb --image test.png
python text_recognition.py --east frozen_east_text_detection.pb --image test.png --padding 0.25