Building a Simple OCR App with Python | Automating Text Search

Let's write a simple Python script to automate search over text in your local images with OCR using Python. Let's get started! :) 📚 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction and setting up the OCR search project 00:18 - Initial project setup requirements and Python package installations 00:32 - Importing necessary libraries 00:45 - Setting up the functions to scan images for text and loop over images in a folder 01:00 - Setting up EasyOCR reader for text detection 01:16 - Coding the OCR scan function 01:57 - Setting up the function to process recognized text 02:20 - Introduction of a template for the search images function 02:31 - Initial testing of the OCR scan function 03:00 - Execution of the OCR scan on an image for demonstration 03:16 - Starting the development of the search images function 04:12 - Explanation of how the search images function works 06:10 - Testing the search images function 07:28 - Transitioning the code to an application callable from terminal 08:20 - Developing a CLI tool to enable OCR search from terminal 10:26 - Parsing the arguments for the CLI tool 11:34 - Coding the logic to handle directory search and keyword recognition 12:30 - Handling single image OCR search in the CLI tool 14:31 - Running and testing the application in the terminal 15:02 - Conclusion and review of the project. 🔗 Links: - Medium Article with source code: https://medium.com/@lucas-soares/how-to-build-a-simple-ocr-search-app-for-your-local-files-1a6357c0a1d0 - Subscribe!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu8WF59Scx9f3H1N_FgZUwQ - Join Medium: https://lucas-soares.medium.com/membership - Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@enkrateialucca?lang=en - Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucasEnkrateia - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-soares-969044167/ #automation #python #productivity #datascience #artificialintelligence