Image-to-Text-Web-App-with-PyTesseract-Flask

A web app that can take an image file as input and will return a string extracted text from the image. The web app will automatically update the page with the extracted text once the user clicks on the 'Extract' button. Libraries used include; Flask for back-end, Tesseract for Image to Text processing, and conventional HTML + JS bootstrap frontend

To run:

1. Make sure you installed all the dependencied by running the install command in the main folder => pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Navigate to the flask app folder, where the app.py is and run the following command in terminal => python app.py
3. Open the browser and type in the localhost:5000 in the address bar
4. That's it! Enjoy