Creating a table from an image in python

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I've never used OCR before and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a decent OCR for python that would be able to convert the following image into a 2D array?

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Ilya Evdokimov · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-02 00:29:26Z

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OCR stands for Optical CHARACTER Recognition. Any generic OCR, even paid high-quality commercial product, will be very unreliable on this image. I tried one - it produces some dots, and keeps most other areas as pictures due to lack of characters.

To process this reliably, especially if the volume is high, I would write an image analysis routine (if images are consistent) or use some specialized customizable tool. To be specific, I would use ABBYY FlexiCapture (because I have access to it) and create a quick template to detect a matrix of 'objects' (black blobs) in table-like pattern. 10 minutes of work at most.

answered Apr 2, 2014 at 0:29

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