How LLM reads an image
ChatGPT, Bard and other LLMs provide an option to upload image and read data from it , How does that actually work ? Let's decode that in this post
Kedar Jois
12/6/20231 min read
/Decoding Image to Text Processing
Large Language Models(LLMs) based chat interfaces provides us the opportunity to ask queries , problems through text prompts and also image and video formats.
This idea fascinated and pushed me to decode its exact root , how does it actually convert an image into text !
/Tesseract
As cool as the name sounds, Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition ( OCR ) engine by Google
All you have to do is import "Pillow" which is a fork of PIL(Python Imaging Library) and Pytesseract ( a python wrapper for Google's Tesseract to extract text from image.
Start off by installing Pillow -> pip install Pillow
Install Tesseract from Github - tesseract-ocr/tesseract: Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository) (github.com)
Set the path in your system/user variable
/Time to extract the text
