[FIXED] Python Tesseract with OpenCV and PIL not detecting characters

Issue

I'm attempting to image recognize the text from a league of legends lobby so I can data mine.

I guess it's not recognizing the font, as the output of the program is: Doel seen aay

Source code:

import numpy as nm  
import pytesseract 
import cv2 
from PIL import ImageGrab, Image 
  
  
def imToString(): 
  
    # Path of tesseract executable 
    pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd ='C:\\Program Files\\Tesseract-OCR\\Tesseract.exe'
    while(True):  
        cap = ImageGrab.grab(bbox =(242, 884, 561, 990)) 
        cap.save('test.png')
        tesstr = pytesseract.image_to_string( 
                cv2.cvtColor(nm.array(cap), cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY),  
                lang ='eng',config='--psm 7')
        print(tesstr)
imToString() 

The image I'm using to test

Solution

It seems you need some preprocessing to image.

Try this one.

import numpy as np
import cv2    
img = cv2.imread('wXQMF.png', 0)
print(img.max(), img.min())
ret, thr1 = cv2.threshold(img, 10, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)

kernel_size_row = 3
kernel_size_col = 3
kernel = np.ones((3, 3), np.uint8)

erosion_image = cv2.erode(thr1, kernel, iterations=1)  #// make erosion image

cv2.imwrite('a.png',thr1)

Answered By - puhuk