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OCR Implementation Guide

This document outlines the implementation of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for text extraction from images using tools like Tesseract OCR. It details the requirements, internal workings of OCR, implementation steps, and provides a sample code snippet. Additionally, it discusses handling challenges such as tampered or blurry text and concludes with recommendations for improving accuracy.

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OCR Implementation Guide

This document outlines the implementation of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for text extraction from images using tools like Tesseract OCR. It details the requirements, internal workings of OCR, implementation steps, and provides a sample code snippet. Additionally, it discusses handling challenges such as tampered or blurry text and concludes with recommendations for improving accuracy.

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Implementing OCR for Text Extraction from Images

1. Objective

This document explains how to implement Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract text data from

images, such as Aadhaar cards, using open-source tools like Tesseract OCR.

2. Requirements

- Python 3.x

- OpenCV

- pytesseract

- PIL

- Pre-trained Tesseract models

Install via:

!apt install tesseract-ocr

!pip install pytesseract opencv-python pillow

3. How OCR Works Internally

OCR involves the following steps:

1. Preprocessing the image: Grayscale conversion, denoising, resizing, and binarization.

2. Layout Analysis: Detecting text blocks, lines, and words.

3. Character Segmentation: Isolating characters using blob detection.

4. Text Recognition: Using a deep LSTM-based model trained via supervised learning.

5. Post-processing: Applying spell check, context-based correction, and output formatting.

4. Implementation Steps

1. Load and preprocess the image using OpenCV (sharpening, resizing, noise removal).

2. Use Tesseract OCR to extract text.

3. Apply regex or rule-based logic to extract structured fields (e.g., name, DOB).
Implementing OCR for Text Extraction from Images

4. Display or store results in a usable format like JSON or a web form.

5. Sample Code Snippet

import pytesseract

import cv2

img = cv2.imread('aadhaar.jpg')

gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

text = pytesseract.image_to_string(gray, lang='eng')

print(text)

6. Handling Tampered or Blurry Text

- Apply image sharpening and denoising filters.

- Use deep learning OCRs (like EasyOCR or DocTR) as fallback.

- Validate and correct fields using regex and fuzzy matching.

- Flag suspect images for manual review.

7. Conclusion

Tesseract is a powerful and open-source OCR engine. When combined with preprocessing and

post-processing, it can reliably extract data from government-issued IDs, scanned documents, and images.

For higher accuracy, hybrid approaches using multiple OCR models and deep learning methods are

recommended.

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