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Text extraction and skewing adjustment

Now, all we must do is extract the text and adjust the text skew. This is done by the deskewAndCrop function, as follows:

Mat deskewAndCrop(Mat input, const RotatedRect& box) 
{ 
   double angle = box.angle;      
   auto size = box.size; 
 
   //Adjust the box angle 
   if (angle -45.0)  
   { 
        angle += 90.0;         std::swap(size.width, size.height);         
   } 
    
   //Rotate the text according to the angle 
   auto transform = getRotationMatrix2D(box.center, angle, 1.0); 
   Mat rotated; 
   warpAffine(input, rotated, transform, input.size(), INTER_CUBIC); 
 
   //Crop the result 
   Mat cropped; 
   getRectSubPix(rotated, size, box.center, cropped); 
   copyMakeBorder(cropped,cropped,10,10,10,10,BORDER_CONSTANT,Scalar(0)); 
   return cropped; 
}

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