birthrecord

Script courtesy of Andrei Amatuni; Last updated: June 2018

a script to turn birth record images into text records with OCR

dependencies

• python, version 2.7.15

• python libraries (install through pip: $ pip install -U lib1 lib2 lib3 etc...)

  • tesserocr

  • PIL

  • editdistance

• opencv2

  • install through homebrew:

    • install homebrew itself: https://brew.sh/

    • then:

      • $ brew install opencv@2