Google Vision API (Part 4) – Text Detection (Handwriting)

Jul 16, 2019 | Google Vision API, Python | 5 comments

Overview

Using Google’s Vision API, we can detect and extract text from images. In this tutorial we are going to learn how to extract text from an image with handwritten text.

Documentation

https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting

Python Script

5 Comments

  1. Amod
    Amod on 2021-03-28 at 9:53 AM

    Can it be used for Arabic hand-written text also? Tesseract does not work well in this case.

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    • jiejenn
      jiejenn on 2021-03-30 at 2:34 AM

      From my experience, Vision API still having trouble detecting hand-written text outside English, at least not completely accurate in most cases as in English.

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  2. NAVEEN YANNAM REDDY
    NAVEEN YANNAM REDDY on 2021-04-09 at 2:12 PM

    cannot import name ‘type’ from ‘google.cloud.vision_v1’ (C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\google\cloud\vision_v1\__init__.py)

    How this error can be solve

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  3. Arti
    Arti on 2021-12-08 at 1:58 PM

    Thank You sir can we extract handwritten text line by line..? in my case extraction is not proper

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  4. Bala
    Bala on 2022-05-18 at 6:25 PM

    How to extract handwritten data in printed application form. The handwritten text written in adhoc manner where most of other contents are computer typed.

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