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Cluster bounding boxes and draw line on them (OpenCV, Python)

With this code I created some bounding boxes around the characters in the below image:

import csv
import cv2
from pytesseract import pytesseract as pt

pt.run_tesseract('bb.png', 'output', lang=None, boxes=True, config="hocr")

# To read the coordinates
boxes = []
with open('output.box', 'rt') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=' ')
    for row in reader:
        if len(row) == 6:
            boxes.append(row)

# Draw the bounding box
img = cv2.imread('bb.png')
h, w, _ = img.shape
for b in boxes:
    img = cv2.rectangle(img, (int(b[1]), h-int(b[2])), (int(b[3]), h-int(b[4])), (0, 255, 0), 2)

cv2.imshow('output', img)
cv2.waitKey(0)

OUTPUT

bb-o1

What I would like to have is this:

bb-o2

The program should draw a perpendicular line on the X axis of the bounding box (only for the first and third text-area. The one in the middle must not be interested in the process).

The goal is this (and of there is another way to achieve it, please explain): once I have this two lines (or, better, group of coordinates), using a mask to cover this two areas.

bb-o3

Is it possible ?

Source image:

src

CSV as requested: print(boxes)

[['l', '56', '328', '63', '365', '0'], ['i', '69', '328', '76', '365', '0'], ['n', '81', '328', '104', '354', '0'], ['e', '108', '328', '130', '354', '0'], ['1', '147', '328', '161', '362', '0'], ['m', '102', '193', '151', '227', '0'], ['i', '158', '193', '167', '242', '0'], ['d', '173', '192', '204', '242', '0'], ['d', '209', '192', '240', '242', '0'], ['l', '247', '193', '256', '242', '0'], ['e', '262', '192', '292', '227', '0'], ['t', '310', '192', '331', '235', '0'], ['e', '334', '192', '364', '227', '0'], ['x', '367', '193', '398', '227', '0'], ['t', '399', '192', '420', '235', '0'], ['-', '440', '209', '458', '216', '0'], ['n', '481', '193', '511', '227', '0'], ['o', '516', '192', '548', '227', '0'], ['n', '553', '193', '583', '227', '0'], ['t', '602', '192', '623', '235', '0'], ['o', '626', '192', '658', '227', '0'], ['t', '676', '192', '697', '235', '0'], ['o', '700', '192', '732', '227', '0'], ['u', '737', '192', '767', '227', '0'], ['c', '772', '192', '802', '227', '0'], ['h', '806', '193', '836', '242', '0'], ['l', '597', '49', '604', '86', '0'], ['i', '610', '49', '617', '86', '0'], ['n', '622', '49', '645', '75', '0'], ['e', '649', '49', '671', '75', '0'], ['2', '686', '49', '710', '83', '0']]

EDIT:

To use zindarod answer, you need tesserocr. Installation through pip install tesserocr can give you various errors. I found wheel version of it (after hours trying to install and solve errors, see my comment below the answer...): here you can find/download it.

Hope this helps..

Solution

  • Googles tesseract-ocr already has this functionality in page segmentation method(psm). You just need to use a better python wrapper, which exposes more of tesseract's functionalities than pytesseract does. One of the better ones is tesserocr.

    A simple example with your image:

      import cv2
  import numpy as np
  import tesserocr as tr
  from PIL import Image

  cv_img = cv2.imread('text.png', cv2.IMREAD_UNCHANGED)

  # since tesserocr accepts PIL images, converting opencv image to pil
  pil_img = Image.fromarray(cv2.cvtColor(cv_img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB))

  #initialize api
  api = tr.PyTessBaseAPI()
  try:
    # set pil image for ocr
    api.SetImage(pil_img)
    # Google tesseract-ocr has a page segmentation methos(psm) option for specifying ocr types
    # psm values can be: block of text, single text line, single word, single character etc.
    # api.GetComponentImages method exposes this functionality
    # function returns:
    # image (:class:`PIL.Image`): Image object.
    # bounding box (dict): dict with x, y, w, h keys.
    # block id (int): textline block id (if blockids is ``True``). ``None`` otherwise.
    # paragraph id (int): textline paragraph id within its block (if paraids is True).
    # ``None`` otherwise.
    boxes = api.GetComponentImages(tr.RIL.TEXTLINE,True)
    # get text
    text = api.GetUTF8Text()
    # iterate over returned list, draw rectangles
    for (im,box,_,_) in boxes:
      x,y,w,h = box['x'],box['y'],box['w'],box['h']
      cv2.rectangle(cv_img, (x,y), (x+w,y+h), color=(0,0,255))
  finally:
    api.End()

  cv2.imshow('output', cv_img)
  cv2.waitKey(0)
  cv2.destroyAllWindows()

    result