A Novel Approach of Tesseract-OCR Usage for Newspaper Article Images

Authors

  • Chaitanya Tejaswi Student, B.E.(Electronics & Communication,2018),Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya,India.
  • Bhargav Goradiya Professor, B.E.(Electronics & Communication,2018),Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya,India.

Keywords:

Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Binarization, Tesseract-OCR, OpenCV

Abstract

A novel approach for optical character recognition of newspaper article images (captured as smartphone camera images) is presented, with evaluation based on two sets of images; both captured using the same camera, under varying lighting conditions.

Cite this Article

Chaitanya Tejaswi, Bhargav Goradiya, Ripal Patel. A Novel Approach of Tesseract-OCR Usage for Newspaper Article Images. Journal of Computer Technology & Applications. 2018; 9(3): 24–29p.

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Published

2019-02-04

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Vol. 9 No. 3 (2018)

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