用Python进行图文识别（OCR）！

OCR与Tesseract介绍

将图片翻译成文字一般被称为光学文字识别（Optical Character Recognition，OCR）。可以实现OCR 的底层库并不多，目前很多库都是使用共同的几个底层OCR 库，或者是在上面进行定制。

Tesseract 是一个OCR 库，目前由Google 赞助（Google 也是一家以OCR 和机器学习技术闻名于世的公司）。Tesseract 是目前公认最优秀、最精确的开源OCR 系统。

除了极高的精确度，Tesseract 也具有很高的灵活性。它可以通过训练识别出任何字体（只要这些字体的风格保持不变就可以），也可以识别出任何Unicode 字符。

Tesseract的安装与使用

Tesseract的Windows安装包下载地址为：http://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/tesseract/tesseract-ocr-setup-4.00.00dev.exe ，下载后双击直接安装即可。安装完后，需要将Tesseract添加到系统变量中。在CMD中输入tesseract -v, 如显示以下界面，则表示Tesseract安装完成且添加到系统变量中。

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<input class="pgc-img-caption-ipt" placeholder="图片描述(最多50字)" value="" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: absolute; left: 187.5px; transform: translateX(-50%); padding: 6px 7px; max-width: 100%; width: 375px; text-align: center; cursor: text; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 217); border-radius: 4px; transition: all 0.2s cubic-bezier(0.645, 0.045, 0.355, 1) 0s;"></tt-image>

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Linux 用户可以通过apt-get 安装：

<pre spellcheck="false" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 5px 10px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: text; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-radius: 3px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">$sudo apt-get tesseract-ocr
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用Tesseract可以识别格式规范的文字，主要具有以下特点：

• 使用一个标准字体（不包含手写体、草书，或者十分“花哨的”字体
• 虽然被复印或拍照，字体还是很清晰，没有多余的痕迹或污点
• 排列整齐，没有歪歪斜斜的字
• 没有超出图片范围，也没有残缺不全，或紧紧贴在图片的边缘

下面将给出几个tesseract识别图片中文字的例子。

首先是E://figures/other/poems.jpg, 输入命令：tesseract E://figures/other/poems.jpg E://figures/other/poems.txt， 则会将poems.jpg中的识别文字写入到poems.txt中，如下图：

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<input class="pgc-img-caption-ipt" placeholder="图片描述(最多50字)" value="" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: absolute; left: 187.5px; transform: translateX(-50%); padding: 6px 7px; max-width: 100%; width: 375px; text-align: center; cursor: text; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 217); border-radius: 4px; transition: all 0.2s cubic-bezier(0.645, 0.045, 0.355, 1) 0s;"></tt-image>

poems.jpg

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<input class="pgc-img-caption-ipt" placeholder="图片描述(最多50字)" value="" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: absolute; left: 187.5px; transform: translateX(-50%); padding: 6px 7px; max-width: 100%; width: 375px; text-align: center; cursor: text; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 217); border-radius: 4px; transition: all 0.2s cubic-bezier(0.645, 0.045, 0.355, 1) 0s;"></tt-image>

接着是稍微有点倾斜的文字图片th.jpg,识别情况如下：

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<input class="pgc-img-caption-ipt" placeholder="图片描述(最多50字)" value="" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: absolute; left: 187.5px; transform: translateX(-50%); padding: 6px 7px; max-width: 100%; width: 375px; text-align: center; cursor: text; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 217); border-radius: 4px; transition: all 0.2s cubic-bezier(0.645, 0.045, 0.355, 1) 0s;"></tt-image>

可以看到识别的情况不如刚才规范字体的好，但是也能识别图片中的大部分字母。最后是识别简体中文，需要事先安装简体中文语言包，下载地址为：https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/find/master/chi_sim.traineddata ,再讲chi_sim.traineddata放在C:Program Files (x86)Tesseract-OCR essdata目录下。我们以图片timg.jpg为例：

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<input class="pgc-img-caption-ipt" placeholder="图片描述(最多50字)" value="" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: absolute; left: 187.5px; transform: translateX(-50%); padding: 6px 7px; max-width: 100%; width: 375px; text-align: center; cursor: text; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 217); border-radius: 4px; transition: all 0.2s cubic-bezier(0.645, 0.045, 0.355, 1) 0s;"></tt-image>

输入命令：

<pre spellcheck="false" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 5px 10px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: text; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-radius: 3px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">tesseract E://figures/other/timg.jpg E://figures/other/timg.txt -l chi_sim
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识别结果如下：

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<input class="pgc-img-caption-ipt" placeholder="图片描述(最多50字)" value="" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: absolute; left: 187.5px; transform: translateX(-50%); padding: 6px 7px; max-width: 100%; width: 375px; text-align: center; cursor: text; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: none; border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 217); border-radius: 4px; transition: all 0.2s cubic-bezier(0.645, 0.045, 0.355, 1) 0s;"></tt-image>

只识别错了一个字，识别率还是不错的。最后加一句，Tesseract对于彩色图片的识别效果没有黑白图片的效果好。

pytesseract

pytesseract是Tesseract关于Python的接口，可以使用pip install pytesseract安装。安装完后，就可以使用Python调用Tesseract了，不过，你还需要一个Python的图片处理模块，可以安装pillow.

输入以下代码，可以实现同上述Tesseract命令一样的效果：

<pre spellcheck="false" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 5px 10px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: text; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-radius: 3px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">import pytesseract
from PIL import Image
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C://Program Files (x86)/Tesseract-OCR/tesseract.exe'
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open('E://figures/other/poems.jpg'))
print(text)
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运行结果（部分）如下：

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