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easyocr_english_text_extraction_with_bounding_boxes.py

python

Initialize the Reader for English and extract text and bounding boxes from an im

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easyocr_english_text_extraction_with_bounding_boxes.py
1import easyocr
2
3# Initialize the reader (this will download model weights on first run)
4# 'en' specifies English; you can add more languages to the list
5reader = easyocr.Reader(['en']) 
6
7# Read text from an image file
8# You can also pass a URL, a numpy array, or bytes
9result = reader.readtext('chinese.jpg')
10
11# Iterate through the results and print detected text
12for (bbox, text, prob) in result:
13    print(f'Text: {text}, Confidence: {prob}')