I have written code based on the references found on web and some youtube videos but it doesnt seem to work for me and i am not understanding any further what could be the issue .
import io
import requests
import pytesseract
from PIL import Image
r = requests.get("http://www.teamjimmyjoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Classic-Best-Funny-Text-Messages-earthquake-titties.jpg",stream=True)
# print( type(response) ) # <class 'requests.models.Response'>
img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(r.content))
# print( type(img) ) # <class 'PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile'>
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
print(text)
i am getting this error
File "F:\Projects\FileExtractor\untitled3.py", line 16, in <module>
img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(r.content))
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 2943, in open
raise UnidentifiedImageError(
UnidentifiedImageError: cannot identify image file <_io.BytesIO object at 0x000001E85C0BAA40>
please help me with this issue . Thank you
Had a further thought. Why not spoof the browser headers, this now appears to work.
import io
import requests
import pytesseract
from PIL import Image
url = 'http://www.teamjimmyjoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Classic-Best-Funny-Text-Messages-earthquake-titties.jpg'
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(r.content))
# # print( type(img) ) # <class 'PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile'>
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
#
print(text)
Response is:
Hey! | just saw on CNN
there was an earthquake
near you. Are you ok?
| Yes! We're all fine!
What did it rate.on the titty
scale?
| Well they only jiggled a |
little bit, so probably not
that high.
HAHAHAHAHAHA | LOVE
YOU
Richter scale. My phone is |
a 12 yr old boy.
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