How to remove unwanted text extracted from the image?

Question

I am working on a project called Business Card Scanner. I am extracting text from the image using pytesseract and then classifying the obtained text using regex and other techniques.

Whenever there is a logo in an image, tesseract consider it as a text and tries to read it. This results in a meaningless text. Consider the example of an image below:

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Here is what I have tried to extract the text:

# Google colab
# read required libraries
img = cv2.imread("img2.jpg")
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
blur = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray, (5,5),0)
ret3, thresh = cv2.threshold(blur,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
cv2_imshow(thresh)
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(thresh, lang = 'eng'); print(text)

This is what I get as output when I run the above code:

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Is there a way I can remove this unwanted text that is produced due to logo (that's what I think)? Please let me know if my question require other information.

Answer 1

The background of the image is the problem. You can omit by selecting a height-range

For example: If you select the height-range between: h/4 - (3*h)/4, result will be: (image is resized due to exceeding 2MiB.)

When you read:

Nikhil Suthar
Regional Coordinator - OSD

Email | Mob. |

Govt. Technical High School Campus, Near Aurobindo
Ashram Dandia Bazar, Vadodara - 390001, Gujarat, India
www.gtu.ac.in | www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in

Code:

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import cv2
from pytesseract import image_to_string

img = cv2.imread("Oa9svHu.jpeg")
gry = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
(h, w) = gry.shape[:2]
gry = gry[int(h/4):int((3*h)/4), 0:w]
txt = image_to_string(gry)
print(txt.strip())
cv2.imshow("gry", gry)
cv2.waitKey(0)