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Have you ever had to loop over an image pixel-by-pixel using Python and OpenCV? If so, you know that it’s a painfully slow operation even though images are internally represented by NumPy arrays. So why is this? Why are individual…
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Two weeks ago OpenCV 3.3 was officially released, bringing with it a highly improved deep learning (dnn ) module. This module now supports a number of deep learning frameworks, including Caffe, TensorFlow, and Torch/PyTorch. Furthermore, this API for using pre-trained…
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One of my favorite photography techniques is long exposure, the process of creating a photo that shows the effect of passing time, something that traditional photography does not capture. When applying this technique, water becomes silky smooth, stars in a…
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Today, I am pleased to announce that PyImageJobs has officially launched. Whether you are (1) looking to find a job in the computer vision, OpenCV, or deep learning space or (2) trying to fill a computer vision position for your…
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Today’s blog post is Part II in our two part series on OCR’ing bank check account and routing numbers using OpenCV, Python, and computer vision techniques. Last week we learned how to extract MICR E-13B digits and symbols from input…
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Today’s blog post is inspired by Li Wei, a PyImageSearch reader who emailed me last week and asked: Hi Adrian, Thank you for the PyImageSearch blog. I read it each week and look forward to your new posts every Monday.…
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Today’s blog post is a continuation of our recent series on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and computer vision. In a previous blog post, we learned how to install the Tesseract binary and use it for OCR. We then learned how…
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Last updated on July 2, 2021. In last week’s blog post we learned how to install the Tesseract binary for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). We then applied the Tesseract program to test and evaluate the performance of the OCR engine…
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Today’s blog post is part one in a two part series on installing and using the Tesseract library for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR is the automatic process of converting typed, handwritten, or printed text to machine-encoded text that we…
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