Java: Data Science Made Easy

Using Tess4j to extract text

The ITesseract interface contains numerous OCR methods. The doOCR method takes a file and returns a string containing the words found in the file, as shown here:

ITesseract instance = new Tesseract();  try {     String result = instance.doOCR(new File("OCRExample.png"));     out.println(result); } catch (TesseractException e) {     // Handle exceptions} 

 

Part of the output is shown next:

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As you can see, there are numerous ...