How would one go about recognizing a text (date) in an image?

• EasyOCR

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  Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

  

  Try running https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR, which reads all the text from a given image. Then loop over the words read and see if it reads your date properly or if it splits it into multiple words. Even if it does this, you can easily find the year (you might need to do some postprocessing on what the ocr reads, i.e transform l to 1). The nice thing is that you get the bounding boxes of where the tect was read so you can use some sort of postprocessing on bbox locations and words read to find the month amd day (i.e. I read 25 at the same y index as the yesr but the x index is to the left, so its probably the day). Good luck :)

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