how to turn handwritten notes into text with python
try:
from PIL import Image
except ImportError:
import Image
import pytesseract
def ocr_core(filename):
"""
This function will handle the core OCR processing of images.
"""
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(filename)) # We'll use Pillow's Image class to open the image and pytesseract to detect the string in the image
return text
print(ocr_core('images/ocr_example_1.png'))