ocr_core.py

try:
    from PIL import Image
except ImportError:
    import PIL
import pytesseract


def ocr_core(filename):
    """
    This function will handle the core OCR processing of images.
    """
    pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"
    text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(
        filename))  # We'll use Pillow's Image class to open the image and pytesseract to detect the string in the image
    return text


# print(ocr_core('images/download.jpg'))