Basic Python usage – performing optical character recognition (OCR) from images
More often than I’d like, I run into situations where users require some special kind of functionality that can only be achieved through some kind of programming.
Python has become the most popular programming language in recent times, and there are endless resources on the web, not only to learn it but also ready-to-use solutions. Working with Python in an Alteryx workflow is very easy using the Python tool that Alteryx provides. This tool creates a new instance of a Jupyter notebook so that we can program inside it.
A common use case I found is that some data must be read from images. In this recipe, we are going to see how we can easily make Python scripts work within Alteryx, starting from an existing one that we found on the web.
Getting ready
We have a test set with all the assets we’ll use throughout this recipe here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Alteryx-Designer...
