Oct. 23, 2023, 4:39 p.m. | Jeremy Morgan

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If you want to read text from an image with a simple Python script, this tutorial is for you. Thanks to the work of many great people over the last few decades, you can read the text from an image with a few lines of code. Really! Let's jump in.






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