Here’s a potential approach using morphological operations to filter out non-text contours. The idea is:
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Obtain binary image. Load image, grayscale, then
Otsu’s threshold -
Remove horizontal and vertical lines. Create horizontal and vertical kernels using
cv2.getStructuringElement()
then remove lines withcv2.drawContours()
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Remove diagonal lines, circle objects, and curved contours. Filter using contour area
cv2.contourArea()
and contour approximationcv2.approxPolyDP()
to isolate non-text contours -
Extract text ROIs and OCR. Find contours and filter for ROIs then OCR using
Pytesseract.
Removed horizontal lines highlighted in green
Removed vertical lines
Removed assorted non-text contours (diagonal lines, circular objects, and curves)
Detected text regions
import cv2
import numpy as np
import pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"
# Load image, grayscale, Otsu's threshold
image = cv2.imread('1.jpg')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
thresh = cv2.threshold(gray, 0, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV + cv2.THRESH_OTSU)[1]
clean = thresh.copy()
# Remove horizontal lines
horizontal_kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (15,1))
detect_horizontal = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, horizontal_kernel, iterations=2)
cnts = cv2.findContours(detect_horizontal, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
cnts = cnts[0] if len(cnts) == 2 else cnts[1]
for c in cnts:
cv2.drawContours(clean, [c], -1, 0, 3)
# Remove vertical lines
vertical_kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (1,30))
detect_vertical = cv2.morphologyEx(thresh, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, vertical_kernel, iterations=2)
cnts = cv2.findContours(detect_vertical, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
cnts = cnts[0] if len(cnts) == 2 else cnts[1]
for c in cnts:
cv2.drawContours(clean, [c], -1, 0, 3)
cnts = cv2.findContours(clean, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
cnts = cnts[0] if len(cnts) == 2 else cnts[1]
for c in cnts:
# Remove diagonal lines
area = cv2.contourArea(c)
if area < 100:
cv2.drawContours(clean, [c], -1, 0, 3)
# Remove circle objects
elif area > 1000:
cv2.drawContours(clean, [c], -1, 0, -1)
# Remove curve stuff
peri = cv2.arcLength(c, True)
approx = cv2.approxPolyDP(c, 0.02 * peri, True)
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(c)
if len(approx) == 4:
cv2.rectangle(clean, (x, y), (x + w, y + h), 0, -1)
open_kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (2,2))
opening = cv2.morphologyEx(clean, cv2.MORPH_OPEN, open_kernel, iterations=2)
close_kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (3,2))
close = cv2.morphologyEx(opening, cv2.MORPH_CLOSE, close_kernel, iterations=4)
cnts = cv2.findContours(close, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
cnts = cnts[0] if len(cnts) == 2 else cnts[1]
for c in cnts:
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(c)
area = cv2.contourArea(c)
if area > 500:
ROI = image[y:y+h, x:x+w]
ROI = cv2.GaussianBlur(ROI, (3,3), 0)
data = pytesseract.image_to_string(ROI, lang='eng',config='--psm 6')
if data.isalnum():
cv2.rectangle(image, (x, y), (x + w, y + h), (36,255,12), 2)
print(data)
cv2.imwrite('image.png', image)
cv2.imwrite('clean.png', clean)
cv2.imwrite('close.png', close)
cv2.imwrite('opening.png', opening)
cv2.waitKey()