This course will walk you through a hands-on project suitable for a portfolio. You will be introduced to third-party APIs and will be shown how to manipulate images using the Python imaging library (pillow), how to apply optical character recognition to images to recognize text (tesseract and pytesseract). By the end of the course you will have worked with these different libraries available for Python 3 to create a real-world project.
Python Project: Software Engineering and Image Manipulation
Python Project: Software Engineering and Image Manipulation
This course is part of Python 3 Programming Specialization
Instructor: Christopher Brooks
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How to inspect and understand APIs and third party libraries to be used with Python 3
How to apply the Python imaging library (pillow) to open, view, and manipulate images, including cropping, resizing, recoloring, and overlaying text
How to apply the python tesseract (pytesseract) library with Python 3 in order to detect text in images through optical character recognition (OCR)
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