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Word Search

A tool to find and highlight instances of a given string from an image.

Project Requirements:

  • OPENCV Open Source Computer Vision): Library mainly aimed at real-time computer vision
  • pytesser: OCR in Python using the Tesseract engine from Google

Project files:

  • inputProcedures.py - contains all helper functions
  • myImports.py - import files
  • pytesser.py - OCR in Python using the Tesseract engine from Google

STEPS:

python mainFile.py
- "User is asked to enter the input image to search":
- "Type the word to search"

Output:

Image with bounding box drawn over the matched search words.

Sample Output:

img

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