A step-by-step guide on extracting text from images and scanned documents using Python with Tesseract OCR. Covers installation of required libraries (pytesseract, OpenCV, Pillow), setting up the Tesseract engine, loading images, preprocessing for better accuracy (grayscale conversion, thresholding), and extracting text with confidence scores. Includes code snippets for each step and tips on saving extracted text to files.
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