README.md

This is the project to Extracting Business Card Data with EasyOCR

This project was done through google colab

Installing required packages

pip install streamlit
pip install streamlit_option_menu
pip install easyocr

Installing the required libraries

import easyocr
import cv2
import pandas as pd
import re
import sqlite3
import base64
import streamlit as st
from streamlit_option_menu import option_menu

Image processing

• read the image
• resize the image
• converting color to gray scale image
• set threshold value brefore passing to OCR Engine

img = cv2.imread(image)
orig_img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
rect,thresh_image = cv2.threshold(orig_img,70,255,cv2.THRESH_TOZERO)

Extracting the data from image

• extraxt the data from image using easyocr using following command

reader = easyocr.Reader(['en'], gpu=False)
res=reader.readtext(thresh_image,detail=0,paragraph=True)

To store the data in to sql server

• creating a table in sqlserver by connecting python with with sql database using sqlite3
• create string using result
• retrive the the pericular entity like,phone no,email-id,address etc by using regular expressions

emails = re.findall(r'[A-Za-z0-9\.\-+_]+@[A-Za-z0-9\.\-+_]+\.[a-z]+', text)

• convert the image to binary form by using base64 to store the image in sql server
• store the retrieved data to table

I hope this projects helps to store the business cards data with the image