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Gaurav Bahadur
Gaurav Bahadur

Reputation: 189

Write image text to a new text file?

I am using tesseract for OCR. I am on ubuntu 18.04.

I have this program which extracts the texts from an image and print it. I want that program to create a new text file and paste the extracted content on to the new text file, but I am only able to do these

Here is my program which extracts the text from image

from pytesseract import image_to_string 
from PIL import Image
print image_to_string(Image.open('sample.jpg'))

Here is the program which copies the text to clipboard,

import os
def addToClipBoard(text):
    command = 'echo ' + text.strip() + '| clip'
    os.system(command)

This program will open the geditor and create a new text file

import subprocess
proc = subprocess.Popen(['gedit', 'file.txt'])

Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4546

Answers (2)

DYZ
DYZ

Reputation: 57075

Just as I proposed in the comment, create a new file and write the extracted text into it:

with open('file.txt', 'w') as outfile:
    outfile.write(image_to_string(Image.open('sample.jpg')))

Upvotes: 1

Mohit Motwani
Mohit Motwani

Reputation: 4792

If you just want the text, then open a text file and write to it:

from pytesseract import image_to_string 
from PIL import Image
text =  image_to_string(Image.open('sample.jpg'))

with open('file.txt', mode = 'w') as f:
    f.write(text)

Upvotes: 2

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