EasyOCR Japanese Text Extractor

This repository provides a simple OCR (Optical Character Recognition) script that extracts text from images containing Japanese and outputs it with confidence scores. It utilizes EasyOCR, and allows users to specify input image files and output destinations via a CLI (Command Line Interface).

✅ Features

• OCR support for both English and Japanese
• Save recognized text along with confidence scores to a file
• Real-time output to the console
• Simple Python script, easy to customize

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📦 Installation

Python 3.7 or higher is recommended.

pip install easyocr

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🚀 Usage

Run the script as follows:

python ocr_script.py --input input.png --output output.txt

• --input: Input image file for OCR processing
• --output: Text file to save the recognition results

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📄 Sample Output

こんにちは (Confidence: 0.95)
ようこそ (Confidence: 0.89)

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📁 File Structure

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├── LICENSE
├── ocr_script.py      # Main script
├── README_ja.md       # Japanese version
├── README.md          # This file
├── requirements.txt
├── sample.png         # Sample input
└── sample.txt         # Sample output

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⚖️ License

This repository is released under the MIT License.

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⚠️ Notes

OCR accuracy depends on image quality and font types.

If recognition errors occur, you can refine and restructure the extracted text using tools like ChatGPT.

We recommend a final manual check for best results.