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My Learnings – OCR in SAP IRPA
As explained by Abinaya Seenivasan in her blog https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/23/how-to-build-custom-ocr-in-sap-rpa/ about OCR, I have followed similar steps and wanted to share few steps which I have felt missing there along with understanding and learnings.
1. Download Tesseract OCR from below link for Windows
https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki
2. Update Training data from Tesseract Best data
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best
3. Simple Python Script required to execute OCR
import pytesseract
import json
import os
# provide the file path where all your files located
filePath = 'D:\\IRPA_TEMP\\'
#Set location where Tessearct is installed
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'
#Consider all files from the folder
files = os.listdir(filePath)
#Considering file is already in image format
for file in files:
#Convert image to string for a specific language, by default lenaguage is english
outText = pytesseract.image_to_string(filePath + file, lang='tha', config='--psm 11')
#Split in Array of String
outTextList = outText.split('\n')
#extract data from above string and prepare Json file
#jsondata = { "Vendor" : outTextList[1] }
#Save extracted json data into json file
with open(filePath + fileName + '.json','w') as json_file:
json.dump(jsondata, json_file)
4. Config values generally used in Pytesseract
Page segmentation modes:
0 Orientation and script detection (OSD) only.
1 Automatic page segmentation with OSD.
2 Automatic page segmentation, but no OSD, or OCR.
3 Fully automatic page segmentation, but no OSD. (Default)
4 Assume a single column of text of variable sizes.
5 Assume a single uniform block of vertically aligned text.
6 Assume a single uniform block of text.
7 Treat the image as a single text line.
8 Treat the image as a single word.
9 Treat the image as a single word in a circle.
10 Treat the image as a single character.
11 Sparse text. Find as much text as possible in no particular order.
12 Sparse text with OSD.
13 Raw line. Treat the image as a single text line,bypassing hacks that are Tesseract-specific.
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