Building Computer Vision Projects with OpenCV 4 and C++

Sending the output to a file

Let's change our main method to send the recognized output to a file. We do this by using a standard ofstream:

int main(int argc, char* argv[])  
{ 
   //Loads the ticket image and binarize it 
   Mat ticket = binarize(imread("ticket.png"));     
   auto regions = findTextAreas(ticket); 
 
   std::ofstream file;  
   file.open("ticket.txt", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary); 
 
   //For each region 
   for (const auto& region : regions) { 
         //Crop  
         auto cropped = deskewAndCrop(ticket, region); 
         auto text = identifyText(cropped, "por"); 
          
         file.write(text, strlen(text)); 
         file endl; 
   } 
    
   file.close(); 
} 

The following line opens the file in binary mode:

file.open("ticket.txt", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary); 

This is important since Tesseract returns text encoded ...