OCR Web App

A simple and modern OCR (Optical Character Recognition) web application built with Python Flask, and Tesseract OCR.
Supports drag-and-drop and multiple image uploads, extracting text from images quickly and easily.

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Features

• Drag-and-drop image upload
• Multiple image upload at once
• Shows selected file names before extracting
• Extracts text from images using Tesseract OCR
• Clean and responsive UI
• Works on Windows with Tesseract installed

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Demo

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/shohagcsediu/OCR-Web-App.git
cd OCR-Web-App

2: Create a Python virtual environment (recommended)

python -m venv venv

Activate the virtual environment: Windows

venv\Scripts\activate

Mac/Linux

source venv/bin/activate

3: Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4: Install Tesseract OCR

Download the Windows installer from Tesseract at UB Mannheim

Install and note the installation path (default: C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR)

Make sure Tesseract is added to your system PATH or update app.py:

import pytesseract
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"

Usage

Start using

python app.py

You can modify the bat file i have created this for my winsows machine.

enjoy :)