Author(s): Ribeiro, Mario R.M. ; Julio, Duarte ; Abelha, Vasco António Pinheiro Costa ; Abelha, António ; Machado, José Manuel
Date: 2019
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/65909
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): HIS; OCR; Python; Wrapper
MHealth Institutes are transitioning between documents in physical format and digital format. It is pertinent and important to develop applications that helps health professionals on this transition. An application that would aid the process of digitalization of documents was developed using a Python library. To help with the decision of which library to use, a study was made regarding the precision and speed of execution of PyOCR, PyTesseract and TesseOCR.
