Simple Digit Recognition OCR in OpenCV-Python

letter_recog.py

import numpy as np
import cv2

fn = 'letter-recognition.data'
a = np.loadtxt(fn, np.float32, delimiter=',', converters={ 0 : lambda ch : ord(ch)-ord('A') })
samples, responses = a[:,1:], a[:,0]

model = cv2.KNearest()
retval = model.train(samples,responses)
retval, results, neigh_resp, dists = model.find_nearest(samples, k = 10)
print results.ravel()

results.reval()

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edited Nov 29 '15 at 11:07 Martin Vseticka 9,5021152110

asked Feb 23 '12 at 12:37 Abid Rahman K 23.5k1375110

this SOF

Letter Recognition Using Holland-Style Adaptive Classifiers

So I just decided to take all the pixel values as my features.

key press manually

import sys

import numpy as np
import cv2

im = cv2.imread('pitrain.png')
im3 = im.copy()

gray = cv2.cvtColor(im,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
blur = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray,(5,5),0)
thresh = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(blur,255,1,1,11,2)

#################      Now finding Contours         ###################

contours,hierarchy = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_LIST,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)

samples =  np.empty((0,100))
responses = []
keys = [i for i in range(48,58)]

for cnt in contours:
if cv2.contourArea(cnt)>50:
[x,y,w,h] = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)

if  h>28:
cv2.rectangle(im,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(0,0,255),2)
roi = thresh[y:y+h,x:x+w]
roismall = cv2.resize(roi,(10,10))
cv2.imshow('norm',im)
key = cv2.waitKey(0)

if key == 27:  # (escape to quit)
sys.exit()
elif key in keys:
responses.append(int(chr(key)))
sample = roismall.reshape((1,100))
samples = np.append(samples,sample,0)

responses = np.array(responses,np.float32)
responses = responses.reshape((responses.size,1))
print "training complete"

np.savetxt('generalsamples.data',samples)
np.savetxt('generalresponses.data',responses)

import cv2
import numpy as np

#######   training part    ###############
samples = np.loadtxt('generalsamples.data',np.float32)
responses = np.loadtxt('generalresponses.data',np.float32)
responses = responses.reshape((responses.size,1))

model = cv2.KNearest()
model.train(samples,responses)

############################# testing part  #########################

im = cv2.imread('pi.png')
out = np.zeros(im.shape,np.uint8)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(im,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
thresh = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(gray,255,1,1,11,2)

contours,hierarchy = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_LIST,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)

for cnt in contours:
if cv2.contourArea(cnt)>50:
[x,y,w,h] = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if  h>28:
cv2.rectangle(im,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(0,255,0),2)
roi = thresh[y:y+h,x:x+w]
roismall = cv2.resize(roi,(10,10))
roismall = roismall.reshape((1,100))
roismall = np.float32(roismall)
retval, results, neigh_resp, dists = model.find_nearest(roismall, k = 1)
string = str(int((results[0][0])))
cv2.putText(out,string,(x,y+h),0,1,(0,255,0))

cv2.imshow('im',im)
cv2.imshow('out',out)
cv2.waitKey(0)

Here it worked with 100% accuracy, for which the reason, i assume, is all digits are of same kind and same size.

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edited Aug 25 '15 at 23:29 tchrist 56.3k1981137

answered Mar 8 '12 at 15:35 Abid Rahman K 23.5k1375110

Code for creating sample and Label data

//Process image to extract contour
Mat thr,gray,con;
Mat src=imread("digit.png",1);
cvtColor(src,gray,CV_BGR2GRAY);
threshold(gray,thr,200,255,THRESH_BINARY_INV); //Threshold to find contour
thr.copyTo(con);

// Create sample and label data
vector< vector <Point> > contours; // Vector for storing contour
vector< Vec4i > hierarchy;
Mat sample;
Mat response_array;
findContours( con, contours, hierarchy,CV_RETR_CCOMP, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE ); //Find contour

for( int i = 0; i< contours.size(); i=hierarchy[i][0] ) // iterate through first hierarchy level contours
{
Rect r= boundingRect(contours[i]); //Find bounding rect for each contour
rectangle(src,Point(r.x,r.y), Point(r.x+r.width,r.y+r.height), Scalar(0,0,255),2,8,0);
Mat ROI = thr(r); //Crop the image
Mat tmp1, tmp2;
resize(ROI,tmp1, Size(10,10), 0,0,INTER_LINEAR ); //resize to 10X10
tmp1.convertTo(tmp2,CV_32FC1); //convert to float
sample.push_back(tmp2.reshape(1,1)); // Store  sample data
imshow("src",src);
int c=waitKey(0); // Read corresponding label for contour from keyoard
c-=0x30;     // Convert ascii to intiger value
response_array.push_back(c); // Store label to a mat
rectangle(src,Point(r.x,r.y), Point(r.x+r.width,r.y+r.height), Scalar(0,255,0),2,8,0);
}

// Store the data to file
Mat response,tmp;
tmp=response_array.reshape(1,1); //make continuous
tmp.convertTo(response,CV_32FC1); // Convert  to float

FileStorage Data("TrainingData.yml",FileStorage::WRITE); // Store the sample data in a file
Data << "data" << sample;
Data.release();

FileStorage Label("LabelData.yml",FileStorage::WRITE); // Store the label data in a file
Label << "label" << response;
Label.release();
cout<<"Training and Label data created successfully....!! "<<endl;

imshow("src",src);
waitKey();

Code for training and testing

Mat thr,gray,con;
Mat src=imread("dig.png",1);
cvtColor(src,gray,CV_BGR2GRAY);
threshold(gray,thr,200,255,THRESH_BINARY_INV); // Threshold to create input
thr.copyTo(con);

// Read stored sample and label for training
Mat sample;
Mat response,tmp;
FileStorage Data("TrainingData.yml",FileStorage::READ); // Read traing data to a Mat
Data["data"] >> sample;
Data.release();

FileStorage Label("LabelData.yml",FileStorage::READ); // Read label data to a Mat
Label["label"] >> response;
Label.release();

KNearest knn;
knn.train(sample,response); // Train with sample and responses
cout<<"Training compleated.....!!"<<endl;

vector< vector <Point> > contours; // Vector for storing contour
vector< Vec4i > hierarchy;

//Create input sample by contour finding and cropping
findContours( con, contours, hierarchy,CV_RETR_CCOMP, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE );
Mat dst(src.rows,src.cols,CV_8UC3,Scalar::all(0));

for( int i = 0; i< contours.size(); i=hierarchy[i][0] ) // iterate through each contour for first hierarchy level .
{
Rect r= boundingRect(contours[i]);
Mat ROI = thr(r);
Mat tmp1, tmp2;
resize(ROI,tmp1, Size(10,10), 0,0,INTER_LINEAR );
tmp1.convertTo(tmp2,CV_32FC1);
float p=knn.find_nearest(tmp2.reshape(1,1), 1);
char name[4];
sprintf(name,"%d",(int)p);
putText( dst,name,Point(r.x,r.y+r.height) ,0,1, Scalar(0, 255, 0), 2, 8 );
}

imshow("src",src);
imshow("dst",dst);
imwrite("dest.jpg",dst);
waitKey();

Result

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edited Sep 28 '14 at 16:16 Pradyun 4,1481043

answered Jan 3 '14 at 11:13 Haris 5,60422642