A Better Way to Process Images for OCR

I wish I had discovered ScanTailor sooner

In my last article, I walked you through processing images for OCR using Python code. OCR requires a clear view of text that can be read from left to right. The more the text looks like it was just printed, the more accurate the results. I recently wrote a more intelligent algorithm and found an open-source software ScanTailor which does a much better job at processing images, especially with geometric warping (i.e. when …

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