Learn how to OCR a passport using OpenCV, Python, and Tesseract. See all the code and line-by-line explanations in an easy-to-follow tutorial.

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Learn how to use image processing techniques and the OpenCV library to localize text in an input image. extract the localized text and OCR it with Tesseract. Build a sample passport reader project that can automatically detect, extract, and O CR the MRZ in a passport image.

OCR Passports with OpenCV and Tesseract

Finding Text in Images with Image Processing