<h1 id="use-ocr-to-extract-text-from-pdf-with-tesseract-opencv-and-python">Use OCR to extract text from pdf with Tesseract, OpenCV and Python<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#use-ocr-to-extract-text-from-pdf-with-tesseract-opencv-and-python"></a></h1>
<p>ref:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://nanonets.com/blog/ocr-with-tesseract/">Nanonets | How to OCR with Tesseract, OpenCV and Python</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk5u3rZk8Vk">Zoum datascience | Youtube</a></li>
<li><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/implementing-optical-character-recognition-ocr-using-pytesseract-5f42cf62ddcc">towards data science</a>, <a href="https://app.box.com/s/ny295vjxobdmbwnyxmefsfdfy0490sax">archived pdf</a></li>
<li><a href="https://levelup.gitconnected.com/a-beginners-guide-to-tesseract-ocr-using-pytesseract-23036f5b2211">Level Up Coding</a>, <a href="https://app.box.com/s/og5eoj5etyr8d0tsigus4ettd4j4rybw">archived pdf</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.datacorner.fr/tesseract-adv/">datacorner.fr</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nUNPrvCFAE">ProgrammingKnowledge | Youtube</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_N1XdFp4w">NeuralNine | Youtube</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfO9gqqMWxU">Cherry's Project | Youtube</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXYPXZH2eGE">Python Tutorials for Digital Humanities | How to OCR an Index in Python with PyTesseract (OCR in Python Tutorials 03.01)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADV-AjAXHdc">Python Tutorials for Digital Humanities | How to Preprocess Images for Text OCR in Python (OCR in Python Tutorials 02.02)</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Idea: </p>
<ul>
<li>convert pdf to image</li>
<li>preprocess image with OpenCV</li>
<li>extract text from image using pytesseract</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="related-resources">Related resources<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#related-resources"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://nanonets.com/blog/layoutlm-explained/">Nanonets | Document Processing - LayoutLM Explained</a></li>
</ul>
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<strong>Backlinks</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/6756tk0a9oe62b5y3o4xpnl">PyTesseract</a></li>
</ul>

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