OCR Passports with OpenCV and Tesseract - PyImageSearch

To learn how to OCR a passport using OpenCV and Tesseract, just keep reading. So far in this course, we've relied on the Tesseract OCR engine to detect the text in an input image. However, as we discovered in a previous tutorial, sometimes Tesseract needs a bit of help before we can actually OCR the text. This tutorial will explore this idea more, demonstrating that computer vision and image processing techniques can localize text regions in a complex input image. Once the text is localized, we can extract the text ROI from the input image and then OCR it using Tesseract.