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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers
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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers

by Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Boštjan Kaluža, Dr. Uday Kamath, Krishna Choppella
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Extracting text from an image

The process of extracting text from an image is called O ptical Character Recognition (OCR). This can be very useful when the text data that needs to be processed is embedded in an image. For example, the information contained in license plates, road signs, and directions can be very useful at times.

We can perform OCR using Tess4j (http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/), a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API. We will demonstrate how to use the API using an image captured from the Wikipedia article on OCR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition#Applications). The Javadoc for the API is found at http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/docs/docs-3.0/. The image we use is shown here:

Using Tess4j to extract text ...

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