Text detection with Python and Opencv | OCR using EasyOCR | Computer vision tutorial 

☺️ my pleasure! I am happy to help you in your computer vision journey! 😃💪

Sounds like a very cool project! 😃🤖 Thank you for your support! 🙌

I am happy you find it useful! 😊🙌

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! 😃

Thank you for your support! 🙌

Thank you! I think you could do it with EasyOCR, the same way I do it in the video. Let me know how it goes! 😃🙌

@@ComputerVisionEngineer Hi I just wanted to tell you that I managed to make the program with easyOCR + googletrans + tkinter to display text on screen, but the problem is that the process of OCR+translation takes way too long (like 15 seconds to translate 20 words) so Ill keep researching for a faster way.

​@@nikowolfwood Cool! Thank you for sharing the update on your project! 💪

@@nikowolfwood can you please share your codes . I am working on something similar but I am having issues

@@nikowolfwood It would be nice to see a demo video of you. It sounds like Google Lens (Translate). Kudos!

You are welcome! 😃🙌

Hey, it is much better if the text is aligned. But take a look at easyocr documentation, the parameter rotation_info from the function readtext may be what you are looking for. 🙌

Hey can I know what project are you doing

@@sjr787 Ocr scanner to scan a food pricelist and update the database

Thank you! Sure, that is perfectly possible! It is just a matter of plugging the output with a text translation API. 😃🙌

@@ComputerVisionEngineer can you do a video about that ? im a python beginner or you can send me a coding with the translator

Sure, I liked the idea for a tutorial, I can make a video about it. 😃 I am working in other projects right now, but I will find some time to do it within the next few weeks! 💪💪

Hey Hemasri, that is a very good idea! I will look into it for a future video. 🙌

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Hey, yes sure it is possible. You can use opencv to read frames from the video, then crop the frames where the date / time is located and input the crop into easyocr. 💪

@@ComputerVisionEngineer Thank you so much for your reply. I implemented same but it's detecting differently each time. For example if date and time is 05/05/2023 07:08:23 some times it is detecting correctly remaining all times it is detecting as 07.08.23, 077778.23, 27.77.28 something like this each time. Can we fine tune to detect correctly. Format will be exactly same for each video as camera used to record footage is same. Please help me.

Hey, I just cloned the repository and everything works properly on my end. I am using Python 3.8, on a Linux system. I added a requirements.txt file to the repo with all the versions of the different packages in case it helps. Let me know how it goes! 🙌

@@ComputerVisionEngineer Nope. Still get the following C:\Users\hgree>pip install easyocr==1.6.1 Collecting easyocr==1.6.1 Using cached easyocr-1.6.1-py3-none-any.whl (2.9 MB) Requirement already satisfied: torch in c:\users\hgree\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from easyocr==1.6.1) (2.1.0.dev20230306+cpu) ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement torchvision>=0.5 (from easyocr) (from versions: 0.1.6, 0.1.7, 0.1.8, 0.1.9, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.2.post2, 0.2.2.post3) ERROR: No matching distribution found for torchvision>=0.5

this is odd since torchvision is installed.... Requirement already satisfied: torchvision in c:\users\hgree\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (0.2.2)

@@ComputerVisionEngineer It looks like the issue is that easyOCR wants a version of torchvision > 0.5 but when I manually install I cant seem to find a version above 0.2.2 PS C:\Users\hgree> pip3 install torchvision ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement torchvision (from versions: 0.1.6, 0.1.7, 0.1.8, 0.1.9, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.2.post2, 0.2.2.post3) ERROR: No matching distribution found for torchvision

I will try to. 🙌

@@ComputerVisionEngineer thank you

The word "but" disqualifies what you said before that. Sometimes it's a great idea to thank somebody for doing a great job especially when they are not obligated to do it. Then in a separate conversation we can't ask them nicely if it's possible to use blurred images as a use case.

@@letlhogonolosetlhodi7494 I am sorry i not good in english

Thank you so much Haider and Letlhogonolo for your contributions. Haider, do you mean you need to read the text from a blurred image?

@@ComputerVisionEngineer yes

@@letlhogonolosetlhodi7494 the word "but" does not disqualify anything, LOL. It just introduces contrast or additional information to what was said before. I have no idea who educated you... but he sure as hell owes u a refund. And I have no idea what made you think that you are welcome to interject here and scold other people. Because no one cares about your opinion so you are well-advised to take your autism elsewhere. Also - yes, he was not obligated to do it but it's not like he did any charity. RU-vidrs make videos to develop their channels and, hopefully, to get paid. And if they don't do well, users have like 10 000 other videos to watch so it's up to channel to deliver what consumer needs and then he can be thankful that anyone watches. Last but not least, he did a decent job but by no means "great" - many people, including me, had issues with easyocr's installation. Nowhere it was mentioned that nvidia-cuda-toolkit needs to be installed. And it needs to. And there were some other problems.

Are you installing the same easyocr version? Are you using the same images I used in the video?

@@ComputerVisionEngineeryes , followed the same code also , for drawing rectangle i modified by using loop so finally was able to draw rectangle around everything .but in case of writing issue is still there