An Introduction to Optical Character Recognition for Beginners

Your first step towards reading text from unstructured data

Renu Khandelwal
Towards Data Science
5 min readMay 23, 2020

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In this article, you will learn

  • What is Optical Character Recognition(OCR)?
  • Usage of OCR
  • Simple code to read text from PDF files and images

You have scanned copies of several documents like certificates of courses candidates have taken. The course certificate could be a PDF or a JPEG or a PNG file. How can you extract vital…

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