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Image To Text in 5 Lines Of Python

Or… How to extract text from images easily

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) used to be thought of as Artificial Intelligence — now it is sublimely easy to do on your local machine.

Image to Code

This is the image that I wanted to convert to text:

The first way to do this is straightforward, involves no coding, and is quick

Do it through Google Docs

Upload the file into Google Docs and the right click the image and select Open with -> Google Docs

The result is a two-page document — one with the image in it — and the second with the converted text.