Reading a page you photographed.
A photographed page is found by its edges and straightened, as the PDF maker straightens scans, before Tesseract reads its words.
By Suraj Kumar2 min read
A page photographed at an angle reads badly until it is made flat.
Found and straightened.
The page's corners are found by where paper meets desk, and the page is drawn flat by its true perspective, the PDF maker's own way.
Taking the photo.
From above, in good light, on a plain dark surface, with the whole page in the picture.
A searchable PDF.
For a PDF of the pages with their words searchable, the PDF maker does that with the same Tesseract.
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Topics: photo to text · picture of document to text · scan text from photo · camera to text · photo of page to text
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