An Introduction to Optical Character Recognition for Beginners
Your first step towards reading text from unstructured data
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5 min readMay 23, 2020
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…