''' Text skewness correction This tutorial demonstrates how to correct the skewness in a text. The program takes as input a skewed source image and shows non skewed text. Usage: python text_skewness_correction.py --image "Image path" ''' import numpy as np import cv2 as cv import sys import argparse def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument("-i", "--image", required=True, help="path to input image file") args = vars(parser.parse_args()) # load the image from disk image = cv.imread(cv.samples.findFile(args["image"])) if image is None: print("can't read image " + args["image"]) sys.exit(-1) gray = cv.cvtColor(image, cv.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) # threshold the image, setting all foreground pixels to # 255 and all background pixels to 0 thresh = cv.threshold(gray, 0, 255, cv.THRESH_BINARY_INV | cv.THRESH_OTSU)[1] # Applying erode filter to remove random noise erosion_size = 1 element = cv.getStructuringElement(cv.MORPH_RECT, (2 * erosion_size + 1, 2 * erosion_size + 1), (erosion_size, erosion_size) ) thresh = cv.erode(thresh, element) coords = cv.findNonZero(thresh) angle = cv.minAreaRect(coords)[-1] # the `cv.minAreaRect` function returns values in the # range [-90, 0) if the angle is less than -45 we need to add 90 to it if angle < -45: angle = (90 + angle) (h, w) = image.shape[:2] center = (w // 2, h // 2) M = cv.getRotationMatrix2D(center, angle, 1.0) rotated = cv.warpAffine(image, M, (w, h), flags=cv.INTER_CUBIC, borderMode=cv.BORDER_REPLICATE) cv.putText(rotated, "Angle: {:.2f} degrees".format(angle), (10, 30), cv.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, 0.7, (0, 0, 255), 2) # show the output image print("[INFO] angle: {:.2f}".format(angle)) cv.imshow("Input", image) cv.imshow("Rotated", rotated) cv.waitKey(0) if __name__ == "__main__": main()