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OpenCV By Example

You're reading from   OpenCV By Example Enhance your understanding of Computer Vision and image processing by developing real-world projects in OpenCV 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280948
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vinícius G. Mendonça Vinícius G. Mendonça
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David Millán Escrivá David Millán Escrivá
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Prateek Joshi Prateek Joshi
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with OpenCV 2. An Introduction to the Basics of OpenCV FREE CHAPTER 3. Learning the Graphical User Interface and Basic Filtering 4. Delving into Histograms and Filters 5. Automated Optical Inspection, Object Segmentation, and Detection 6. Learning Object Classification 7. Detecting Face Parts and Overlaying Masks 8. Video Surveillance, Background Modeling, and Morphological Operations 9. Learning Object Tracking 10. Developing Segmentation Algorithms for Text Recognition 11. Text Recognition with Tesseract Index

Installing Tesseract OCR on your operating system


Tesseract is an open source OCR engine originally developed by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol and Hewlett-Packard Co. It has all the code licenses under the Apache License and is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/tesseract-ocr.

It is considered one of the most accurate OCR engines that is available. It can read a wide variety of image formats and can convert text written in more than 60 languages.

In this session, we will teach you how to install Tesseract on Windows or Mac. Since there are lots of Linux distributions, we will not teach you how to install on this operating system.

Normally, Tesseract offers installation packages in your package repository, so before you compile Tesseract, just search there.

Installing Tesseract on Windows

Although Tesseract is hosted on GitHub, its latest Windows installer is still available in the old repository on Google Code. The latest installer version is 3.02.02, and it's recommended that you...

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