Tools for preprocessing scanned images for OCR

Installing

To install anyBaseOCR dependencies system-wide:

$ sudo pip install .

Alternatively, dependencies can be installed into a Virtual Environment:

$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -e .

Tools included

To see how to run binarization, deskew, crop and dewarp method, please follow corresponding below files :

• README_binarize.md instruction for binarization method
• README_deskew.md instruction for deskew method
• README_cropping.md instruction for cropping method
• README_dewarp.md instruction for dewarp method

Testing

To test the tools, download OCR-D/assets. In particular, the code is tested with the dfki-testdata dataset.

Run make test to run all tests.

License

 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 You may obtain a copy of the License at

     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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