Originally Posted On: https://medium.com/@kiamars.mirzaee/ocr-with-tesseract-ab103e7a9e4f Combining OpenCV’s EAST and Tesseract to form a complete text detection and OCR pipeline Optical character recognition, or OCR for short, is used to describe algorithms and techniques (both electronic and mechanical) to convert images of text to machine-encoded text. Tesseract The Tesseract OCR engine was first developed as closed-source software by Hewlett-Packard (HP) Labs in the 1980s.