pytesseract using tesseract 4.0 numbers only not working

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CuriousGeorge picture CuriousGeorge · Oct 4, 2017 · Viewed 22.6k times · Source

Any one tried to get numbers only calling the latest version of tesseract 4.0 in python?

The below worked in 3.05 but still returns characters in 4.0, I tried removing all config files but the digits file and still didn't work; any help would be great:

im is an image of a date, black text white background:

import pytesseract
im =  imageOfDate
im = pytesseract.image_to_string(im, config='outputbase digits')
print(im)

Answer

thewaywewere picture thewaywewere · Oct 5, 2017

You can specify the numbers in the tessedit_char_whitelist as below as a config option.

ocr_result = pytesseract.image_to_string(image, lang='eng', boxes=False, \
           config='--psm 10 --oem 3 -c tessedit_char_whitelist=0123456789')

Hope this help.

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