I have scanned images which have tables as shown in this image:
I am trying to extract each box separately and perform OCR but when I try to detect horizontal and vertical lines and then detect boxes it's returning the following image:
And when I try to perform other transformations to detect text (erode and dilate) some remains of lines are still coming along with text like below:
I cannot detect text only to perform OCR and proper bounding boxes aren't being generated like below:
I cannot get clearly separated boxes using real lines, I've tried this on an image that was edited in paint(as shown below) to add digits and it works.
I don't know which part I'm doing wrong but if there's anything I should try or maybe change/add in my question please please tell me.
#Loading all required libraries
%pylab inline
import cv2
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import pytesseract
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import statistics
from time import sleep
import random
img = cv2.imread('images/scan1.jpg',0)
# for adding border to an image
img1= cv2.copyMakeBorder(img,50,50,50,50,cv2.BORDER_CONSTANT,value=[255,255])
# Thresholding the image
(thresh, th3) = cv2.threshold(img1, 255, 255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY|cv2.THRESH_OTSU)
# to flip image pixel values
th3 = 255-th3
# initialize kernels for table boundaries detections
if(th3.shape[0]<1000):
ver = np.array([[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1]])
hor = np.array([[1,1,1,1,1,1]])
else:
ver = np.array([[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1],
[1]])
hor = np.array([[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]])
# to detect vertical lines of table borders
img_temp1 = cv2.erode(th3, ver, iterations=3)
verticle_lines_img = cv2.dilate(img_temp1, ver, iterations=3)
# to detect horizontal lines of table borders
img_hor = cv2.erode(th3, hor, iterations=3)
hor_lines_img = cv2.dilate(img_hor, hor, iterations=4)
# adding horizontal and vertical lines
hor_ver = cv2.add(hor_lines_img,verticle_lines_img)
hor_ver = 255-hor_ver
# subtracting table borders from image
temp = cv2.subtract(th3,hor_ver)
temp = 255-temp
#Doing xor operation for erasing table boundaries
tt = cv2.bitwise_xor(img1,temp)
iii = cv2.bitwise_not(tt)
tt1=iii.copy()
#kernel initialization
ver1 = np.array([[1,1],
[1,1],
[1,1],
[1,1],
[1,1],
[1,1],
[1,1],
[1,1],
[1,1]])
hor1 = np.array([[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1],
[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]])
#morphological operation
temp1 = cv2.erode(tt1, ver1, iterations=2)
verticle_lines_img1 = cv2.dilate(temp1, ver1, iterations=1)
temp12 = cv2.erode(tt1, hor1, iterations=1)
hor_lines_img2 = cv2.dilate(temp12, hor1, iterations=1)
# doing or operation for detecting only text part and removing rest all
hor_ver = cv2.add(hor_lines_img2,verticle_lines_img1)
dim1 = (hor_ver.shape[1],hor_ver.shape[0])
dim = (hor_ver.shape[1]*2,hor_ver.shape[0]*2)
# resizing image to its double size to increase the text size
resized = cv2.resize(hor_ver, dim, interpolation = cv2.INTER_AREA)
#bitwise not operation for fliping the pixel values so as to apply morphological operation such as dilation and erode
want = cv2.bitwise_not(resized)
if(want.shape[0]<1000):
kernel1 = np.array([[1,1,1]])
kernel2 = np.array([[1,1],
[1,1]])
kernel3 = np.array([[1,0,1],[0,1,0],
[1,0,1]])
else:
kernel1 = np.array([[1,1,1,1,1,1]])
kernel2 = np.array([[1,1,1,1,1],
[1,1,1,1,1],
[1,1,1,1,1],
[1,1,1,1,1]])
tt1 = cv2.dilate(want,kernel1,iterations=2)
# getting image back to its original size
resized1 = cv2.resize(tt1, dim1, interpolation = cv2.INTER_AREA)
# Find contours for image, which will detect all the boxes
contours1, hierarchy1 = cv2.findContours(resized1, cv2.RETR_TREE, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
#function to sort contours by its x-axis (top to bottom)
def sort_contours(cnts, method="left-to-right"):
# initialize the reverse flag and sort index
reverse = False
i = 0
# handle if we need to sort in reverse
if method == "right-to-left" or method == "bottom-to-top":
reverse = True
# handle if we are sorting against the y-coordinate rather than
# the x-coordinate of the bounding box
if method == "top-to-bottom" or method == "bottom-to-top":
i = 1
# construct the list of bounding boxes and sort them from top to
# bottom
boundingBoxes = [cv2.boundingRect(c) for c in cnts]
(cnts, boundingBoxes) = zip(*sorted(zip(cnts, boundingBoxes),
key=lambda b:b[1][i], reverse=reverse))
# return the list of sorted contours and bounding boxes
return (cnts, boundingBoxes)
#sorting contours by calling fuction
(cnts, boundingBoxes) = sort_contours(contours1, method="top-to-bottom")
#storing value of all bouding box height
heightlist=[]
for i in range(len(boundingBoxes)):
heightlist.append(boundingBoxes[i][3])
#sorting height values
heightlist.sort()
sportion = int(.5*len(heightlist))
eportion = int(0.05*len(heightlist))
#taking 50% to 95% values of heights and calculate their mean
#this will neglect small bounding box which are basically noise
try:
medianheight = statistics.mean(heightlist[-sportion:-eportion])
except:
medianheight = statistics.mean(heightlist[-sportion:-2])
#keeping bounding box which are having height more then 70% of the mean height and deleting all those value where
# ratio of width to height is less then 0.9
box =[]
imag = iii.copy()
for i in range(len(cnts)):
cnt = cnts[i]
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if(h>=.7*medianheight and w/h > 0.9):
image = cv2.rectangle(imag,(x+4,y-2),(x+w-5,y+h),(0,255,0),1)
box.append([x,y,w,h])
# to show image
###Now we have badly detected boxes image as shown
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