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I am working on a django project that analyzes images that contain text and (1) infers if the image needs to be rotated and (2) where text areas are.
I am currently using PIL to do some more simpler processing of these images but I am not quite sure how I can use PIL or other libraries to perform both tasks. I was wondering if anyone has done this before and if there are libraries / api available to help in the development.
OpenCV is probably the post popular open source image processing library. It’s C/C++ but there are python bindings:
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/
and the python docs
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/python/index.html
I’ve never done an OCR with it, but I’m sure it’s capable