create ocr-test-1.py

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+# Import the required modules
+import pytesseract
+from PIL import Image
+
+# Set the path for the Tesseract executable
+pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'
+
+# Open the image using Pillow library
+img = Image.open('image.png')
+
+# Convert the image to grayscale
+img = img.convert('L')
+
+# Perform OCR using Tesseract
+text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
+
+# Print the extracted text
+print(text)