Python | OCR on All the Images present in a Folder Simultaneously Last Updated : 11 Nov, 2019 Comments Improve Suggest changes Like Article Like Report If you have a folder full of images that has some text which needs to be extracted into a separate folder with the corresponding image file name or in a single file, then this is the perfect code you are looking for. This article not only gives you the basis of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) but also helps you to create output.txt file for every image inside the main folder and save it in some predetermined direction. Libraries Needed - pip3 install pillow pip3 install os-sys You will also need the tesseract-oct and pytesseract library. The tesseract-ocr can be downloaded and installed from here and the pytesseract can be installed using pip3 install pytesseract Below is the Python implementation - Python3 1== # Python program to extract text from all the images in a folder # storing the text in corresponding files in a different folder from PIL import Image import pytesseract as pt import os def main(): # path for the folder for getting the raw images path ="E:\\GeeksforGeeks\\images" # path for the folder for getting the output tempPath ="E:\\GeeksforGeeks\\textFiles" # iterating the images inside the folder for imageName in os.listdir(path): inputPath = os.path.join(path, imageName) img = Image.open(inputPath) # applying ocr using pytesseract for python text = pt.image_to_string(img, lang ="eng") # for removing the .jpg from the imagePath imagePath = imagePath[0:-4] fullTempPath = os.path.join(tempPath, 'time_'+imageName+".txt") print(text) # saving the text for every image in a separate .txt file file1 = open(fullTempPath, "w") file1.write(text) file1.close() if __name__ == '__main__': main() Input Image : image_sample1 Output : geeksforgeeks geeksforgeeks If you want to store all the text from the images in a single output file then the code will be a little different. The main difference is that the mode of the file in which we will be writing will change to "+a" to append the text and create the output.txt file if it is not present already. Python3 1== # extract text from all the images in a folder # storing the text in a single file from PIL import Image import pytesseract as pt import os def main(): # path for the folder for getting the raw images path ="E:\\GeeksforGeeks\\images" # link to the file in which output needs to be kept fullTempPath ="E:\\GeeksforGeeks\\output\\outputFile.txt" # iterating the images inside the folder for imageName in os.listdir(path): inputPath = os.path.join(path, imageName) img = Image.open(inputPath) # applying ocr using pytesseract for python text = pt.image_to_string(img, lang ="eng") # saving the text for appending it to the output.txt file # a + parameter used for creating the file if not present # and if present then append the text content file1 = open(fullTempPath, "a+") # providing the name of the image file1.write(imageName+"\n") # providing the content in the image file1.write(text+"\n") file1.close() # for printing the output file file2 = open(fullTempPath, 'r') print(file2.read()) file2.close() if __name__ == '__main__': main() Input Image : image_sample1 image_sample2 Output: It gave an output of the single file created after extracting all the information from the image inside the folder. The format of the file goes like this - Name of the image Content of the image Name of the next image and so on ..... Comment More infoAdvertise with us Next Article Python | OCR on All the Images present in a Folder Simultaneously A amankrsharma3 Follow Improve Article Tags : Machine Learning Image-Processing Python-pil python Practice Tags : Machine Learningpython Similar Reads Python Pillow Tutorial sinceDigital Image processing means processing the image digitally with the help of a computer. Using image processing we can perform operations like enhancing the image, blurring the image, extracting text from images, and many more operations. There are various ways to process images digitally. He 15+ min read Introduction to PillowPython: Pillow (a fork of PIL)Python Imaging Library (expansion of PIL) is the de facto image processing package for Python language. It incorporates lightweight image processing tools that aids in editing, creating and saving images. 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