Merge pull request #401 from Yaswanth820/master

Added extract_text_from_image script

Author: bartick

scripts/Extract_TEXT_FROM_IMAGE/README.md

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+# Extract text from image
+
+This script extracts text from an image using the EasyOCR library.
+It can support multiple languages.
+
+## Usage
+
+1. Create a virtual environment
+2. Install the requirements - `pip install -r requirements.txt`
+3. Run the script - `python main.py`
+
+## Output
+
+Output will be printed to console.
+
+Happy coding!!

scripts/Extract_TEXT_FROM_IMAGE/main.py

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+import easyocr
+
+gpu = False # if you want to use GPU, set gpu=True
+languages = ['en'] # refer https://www.jaided.ai/easyocr/ for supporting languages
+
+reader = easyocr.Reader(languages, gpu=gpu)
+
+IMG_PATH = 'test1.png'
+result = reader.readtext(IMG_PATH)
+
+text = ''
+for tup in result:
+  text += tup[1]
+
+print(text)

scripts/Extract_TEXT_FROM_IMAGE/requirements.txt

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+easyocr==1.6.2