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I have two images with given points, one point each image, that need to be aligned so that the result image is a summation of both images, while image 2 is pasted on image 1 with 40% opacity. I have taken this question into consideration but our case does not exactly match as the image co-ordinate is supplied by user and images can have wide range of sizes.
Image 1:
Image2:
Final result(desired output):
For this I have tried img.paste() function of PIL and replacing values in numpy array of images in cv2, both giving results that are far from desired.
I made two input images with ImageMagick like this:
magick -size 300x400 xc:"rgb(1,204,255)" -fill red -draw "point 280,250" 1.png
magick -size 250x80 xc:"rgb(150,203,0)" -fill red -draw "point 12,25" 2.png
Then ran the following code:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Paste one image on top of another such that given points in each are coincident.
"""
from PIL import Image
# Open images and ensure RGB
im1 = Image.open('1.png').convert('RGB')
im2 = Image.open('2.png').convert('RGB')
# x,y coordinates of point in each image
p1x, p1y = 280, 250
p2x, p2y = 12, 25
# Work out how many pixels of space we need left, right, above, below common point in new image
pL = max(p1x, p2x)
pR = max(im1.width-p1x, im2.width-p2x)
pT = max(p1y, p2y)
pB = max(im1.height-p1y, im2.height-p2y)
# Create background in solid white
bg = Image.new('RGB', (pL+pR, pT+pB),'white')
bg.save('DEBUG-bg.png')
# Paste im1 onto background
bg.paste(im1, (pL-p1x, pT-p1y))
bg.save('DEBUG-bg+im1.png')
# Make 40% opacity mask for im2
alpha = Image.new('L', (im2.width,im2.height), int(40*255/100))
alpha.save('DEBUG-alpha.png')
# Paste im2 over background with alpha
bg.paste(im2, (pL-p2x, pT-p2y), alpha)
bg.save('result.png')
The result is this:
The lines that save images with names starting "DEBUG-xxx.png" are just for easy debugging and can be removed. I can easily view them all to see what is going on with the code and I can easily delete them all by removing "DEBUG*png".
Without any more details, I will try to answer the question as best as I can and will name all the extra assumptions that I made (and how to handle them if you can't make them).
Since there were no provided images, I created a blue and green image with a black dot as merging coordinate, using the following code:
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw
def create_image_with_point(name, color, x, y, width=3):
image = np.full((400, 400, 3), color, dtype=np.uint8)
image[y - width:y + width, x - width:x + width] = (0, 0, 0)
image = Image.fromarray(image, mode='RGB')
ImageDraw.Draw(image).text((x - 15, y - 20), 'Point', (0, 0, 0))
image.save(name)
return image
blue = create_image_with_point('blue.png', color=(50, 50, 255), x=300, y=100)
green = create_image_with_point('green.png', color=(50, 255, 50), x=50, y=50)
This results in the following images:
Now I will make the assumption that the images do not contain an alpha layer yet (as I created them without). Therefore I will load the image and add an alpha layer to them:
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
blue = Image.open('blue.png')
blue.putalpha(255)
green = Image.open('green.png')
green.putalpha(255)
My following assumption is that you know the merge coordinates beforehand:
# Assuming x, y coordinates.
point_blue = (300, 100)
point_green = (50, 50)
Then you can create an empty image, that can hold both of the images easily:
new_image = np.zeros((1000, 1000, 4), dtype=np.uint8)
This is a far stretch assumption if you do not know the image size beforehand, and in case you do not know this you will have to calculate the combining size of the two images.
Then you can place the images dot in the center of the newly created images (in my case (500, 500). For this you use the merging points as offsets. And you can perform alpha blending (in any case: np.uint8(img_1*alpha + img_2*(1-alpha))) to merge the images using different opacity.
Which is in code:
def place_image(image: Image, point_xy: tuple[int, int], dest: np.ndarray, alpha: float = 1.) -> np.ndarray:
# Place the merging dot on (500, 500).
offset_x, offset_y = 500 - point_xy[0], 500 - point_xy[1]
# Calculate the location of the image and perform alpha blending.
destination = dest[offset_y:offset_y + image.height, offset_x:offset_x + image.width]
destination = np.uint8(destination * (1 - alpha) + np.array(image) * alpha)
# Copy the 'merged' imaged to the destination location.
dest[offset_y:offset_y + image.height, offset_x:offset_x + image.width] = destination
return dest
# Add the background image blue with alpha 1
new_image = place_image(blue, point_blue, dest=new_image, alpha=1)
# Add the second image with 40% opacity
new_image = place_image(green, point_green, dest=new_image, alpha=0.4)
# Store the resulting image.
image = Image.fromarray(new_image)
image.save('result.png')
The final result will be a bigger image, of the combined images, again you can calculate the correct bounding box, so you don't have these huge areas of 'nothing' sticking out. The final result will look like this:
I am new to OpenCV and trying to see if I can find a way to detect vertical text for the image attached.
In this case on row 3 , I would like to get the bounding box around Original Cost and the amount below ($200,000.00).
Similarly I would like to get the bounding box around Amount Existing Liens and the associated amount below. I then would use this data to send to an OCR engine to read text. Traditional OCR engines go line by line and extract and loses the context.
Here is what I have tried so far -
import cv2
import numpy as np
img = cv2.imread('Test3.png')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
edges = cv2.Canny(gray,100,100,apertureSize = 3)
cv2.imshow('edges',edges)
cv2.waitKey(0)
minLineLength = 20
maxLineGap = 10
lines = cv2.HoughLinesP(edges,1,np.pi/180,15,minLineLength=minLineLength,maxLineGap=maxLineGap)
for x in range(0, len(lines)):
for x1,y1,x2,y2 in lines[x]:
cv2.line(img,(x1,y1),(x2,y2),(0,255,0),2)
cv2.imshow('hough',img)
cv2.waitKey(0)
Here is my solution based on Kanan Vyas and Adrian Rosenbrock
It's probably not as "canonical" as you'd wish.
But it seems to work (more or less...) with the image you provided.
Just a word of CAUTION: The code looks within the directory from which it is running, for a folder named "Cropped" where cropped images will be stored. So, don't run it in a directory which already contains a folder named "Cropped" because it deletes everything in this folder at each run. Understood? If you're unsure run it in a separate folder.
The code:
# Import required packages
import cv2
import numpy as np
import pathlib
###################################################################################################################################
# https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/04/20/sorting-contours-using-python-and-opencv/
###################################################################################################################################
def sort_contours(cnts, method="left-to-right"):
# initialize the reverse flag and sort index
reverse = False
i = 0
# handle if we need to sort in reverse
if method == "right-to-left" or method == "bottom-to-top":
reverse = True
# handle if we are sorting against the y-coordinate rather than
# the x-coordinate of the bounding box
if method == "top-to-bottom" or method == "bottom-to-top":
i = 1
# construct the list of bounding boxes and sort them from top to
# bottom
boundingBoxes = [cv2.boundingRect(c) for c in cnts]
(cnts, boundingBoxes) = zip(*sorted(zip(cnts, boundingBoxes),
key=lambda b:b[1][i], reverse=reverse))
# return the list of sorted contours and bounding boxes
return (cnts, boundingBoxes)
###################################################################################################################################
# https://medium.com/coinmonks/a-box-detection-algorithm-for-any-image-containing-boxes-756c15d7ed26 (with a few modifications)
###################################################################################################################################
def box_extraction(img_for_box_extraction_path, cropped_dir_path):
img = cv2.imread(img_for_box_extraction_path, 0) # Read the image
(thresh, img_bin) = cv2.threshold(img, 128, 255,
cv2.THRESH_BINARY | cv2.THRESH_OTSU) # Thresholding the image
img_bin = 255-img_bin # Invert the imagecv2.imwrite("Image_bin.jpg",img_bin)
# Defining a kernel length
kernel_length = np.array(img).shape[1]//200
# A verticle kernel of (1 X kernel_length), which will detect all the verticle lines from the image.
verticle_kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (1, kernel_length))
# A horizontal kernel of (kernel_length X 1), which will help to detect all the horizontal line from the image.
hori_kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (kernel_length, 1))
# A kernel of (3 X 3) ones.
kernel = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_RECT, (3, 3))# Morphological operation to detect verticle lines from an image
img_temp1 = cv2.erode(img_bin, verticle_kernel, iterations=3)
verticle_lines_img = cv2.dilate(img_temp1, verticle_kernel, iterations=3)
#cv2.imwrite("verticle_lines.jpg",verticle_lines_img)# Morphological operation to detect horizontal lines from an image
img_temp2 = cv2.erode(img_bin, hori_kernel, iterations=3)
horizontal_lines_img = cv2.dilate(img_temp2, hori_kernel, iterations=3)
#cv2.imwrite("horizontal_lines.jpg",horizontal_lines_img)# Weighting parameters, this will decide the quantity of an image to be added to make a new image.
alpha = 0.5
beta = 1.0 - alpha
# This function helps to add two image with specific weight parameter to get a third image as summation of two image.
img_final_bin = cv2.addWeighted(verticle_lines_img, alpha, horizontal_lines_img, beta, 0.0)
img_final_bin = cv2.erode(~img_final_bin, kernel, iterations=2)
(thresh, img_final_bin) = cv2.threshold(img_final_bin, 128, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY | cv2.THRESH_OTSU)# For Debugging
# Enable this line to see verticle and horizontal lines in the image which is used to find boxes
#cv2.imwrite("img_final_bin.jpg",img_final_bin)
# Find contours for image, which will detect all the boxes
contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(
img_final_bin, cv2.RETR_TREE, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
# Sort all the contours by top to bottom.
(contours, boundingBoxes) = sort_contours(contours, method="top-to-bottom")
idx = 0
for c in contours:
# Returns the location and width,height for every contour
x, y, w, h = cv2.boundingRect(c)# If the box height is greater then 20, widht is >80, then only save it as a box in "cropped/" folder.
if (w > 50 and h > 20):# and w > 3*h:
idx += 1
new_img = img[y:y+h, x:x+w]
cv2.imwrite(cropped_dir_path+str(x)+'_'+str(y) + '.png', new_img)
###########################################################################################################################################################
def prepare_cropped_folder():
p=pathlib.Path('./Cropped')
if p.exists(): # Cropped folder non empty. Let's clean up
files = [x for x in p.glob('*.*') if x.is_file()]
for f in files:
f.unlink()
else:
p.mkdir()
###########################################################################################################################################################
# MAIN
###########################################################################################################################################################
prepare_cropped_folder()
# Read image from which text needs to be extracted
img = cv2.imread("dkesg.png")
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# Performing OTSU threshold
ret, thresh1 = cv2.threshold(gray, 0, 255, cv2.THRESH_OTSU | cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)
thresh1=255-thresh1
bin_y=np.zeros(thresh1.shape[0])
for x in range(0,len(bin_y)):
bin_y[x]=sum(thresh1[x,:])
bin_y=bin_y/max(bin_y)
ry=np.where(bin_y>0.995)[0]
for i in range(0,len(ry)):
cv2.line(img, (0, ry[i]), (thresh1.shape[1], ry[i]), (0, 0, 0), 1)
# We need to draw abox around the picture with a white border in order for box_detection to work
cv2.line(img,(0,0),(0,img.shape[0]-1),(255,255,255),2)
cv2.line(img,(img.shape[1]-1,0),(img.shape[1]-1,img.shape[0]-1),(255,255,255),2)
cv2.line(img,(0,0),(img.shape[1]-1,0),(255,255,255),2)
cv2.line(img,(0,img.shape[0]-1),(img.shape[1]-1,img.shape[0]-1),(255,255,255),2)
cv2.line(img,(0,0),(0,img.shape[0]-1),(0,0,0),1)
cv2.line(img,(img.shape[1]-3,0),(img.shape[1]-3,img.shape[0]-1),(0,0,0),1)
cv2.line(img,(0,0),(img.shape[1]-1,0),(0,0,0),1)
cv2.line(img,(0,img.shape[0]-2),(img.shape[1]-1,img.shape[0]-2),(0,0,0),1)
cv2.imwrite('out.png',img)
box_extraction("out.png", "./Cropped/")
Now... It puts the cropped regions in the Cropped folder. They are named as x_y.png with (x,y) the position on the original image.
Here are two examples of the outputs
and
Now, in a terminal. I used pytesseract on these two images.
The results are the following:
1)
Original Cost
$200,000.00
2)
Amount Existing Liens
$494,215.00
As you can see, pytesseract got the amount wrong in the second case... So, be careful.
Best regards,
Stéphane
I assume the bounding box is fix (rectangle that able to fit in "Original Amount and the amount below). You can use text detection to detect the "Original Amount" and "Amount Existing Liens" using OCR and crop out the image based on the detected location for further OCR on the amount. You can refer this link for text detection
Try to divide the image into different cells using the lines in the image.
For example, first divide the input into rows by detecting the horizontal lines. This can be done by using cv.HoughLinesP and checking for each line if the difference between y-coordinate of the begin and end point is smaller than a certain threshold abs(y2 - y1) < 10. If you have a horizontal line, it's a separator for a new row. You can use the y-coordinates of this line to split the input horizontally.
Next, for the row you're interested in, divide the region into columns using the same technique, but now make sure the difference between the x-coordinates of the begin and end point are smaller than a certain threshold, since you're now looking for the vertical lines.
You can now crop the image to different cells using the y-coordinates of the horizontal lines and the x-coordinates of the vertical lines. Pass these cropped regions one by one to the OCR engine and you'll have for each cell the corresponding text.
1.Load image.jpg into array
2.randomly choose coordinates from array and display that pixel with all it's attributes
3. Pop coordinate used from array.
4. Repeat #2 until array is empty
This would display an image with random pixels populated.
The end result would always be the original image, but each time it would populate in a different manner.
How can this be done in Python3?
Here's one way of doing it...
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import numpy as np
import cv2
# Open the image and make black version, same size, to fill randomly
im = cv2.imread('paddington.png')
fade = np.zeros_like(im)
# Generate a randomly shuffled array of the coordinates
X,Y = np.where(im[...,0]>=0)
coords = np.column_stack((X,Y))
np.random.shuffle(coords)
for n, c in enumerate(list(coords)):
# Copy one original pixel across to image we are fading in
x, y = c
fade[x,y] = im[x,y]
# It takes 1ms to update the image, so we don't update after every pixel
if n % 500 == 0:
cv2.imshow('Fading in...', fade)
cv2.waitKey(1)
# Image should now be completely faded in
cv2.imshow('Fading in...', fade)
cv2.waitKey()
Keywords: Python, OpenCV, fade, fade in, fade from black, fade from white, image processing, video.
I am trying to extract the rectangles in an image after extraction, getting two contours for each shape that is detected i.e, lower bound and upper bound of each shape. But i need only one countour for shape
I tried to convert the image to binary and applied dilation to it and extracted each contour. Here iam getting two countours for each shape but i need only one contour for each shape, how can i get only one countour for one shape.
img = cv2.imread("target2.jpg",0)
img = cv2.resize(img,(1280,720)) # resizing image as it is large in size
_,thr1 = cv2.threshold(img,220,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV) # convering to binary
kernal = np.ones((2,2),np.uint8) #creating small size kernel
dilation = cv2.dilate(thr1, kernal , iterations=1) # dialating the small pixels in image
contours, hireracy = cv2.findContours(dilation,cv2.RETR_TREE, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_NONE) # finding the countours in image
count =0 #conting the rectangles
for i,contour in enumerate(contours):
approx = cv2.approxPolyDP(contour,0.01*cv2.arcLength(contour,True),True); #using approxpoly to define the arc thickness
if len(approx) ==4: # is the poly contains four vertices then its an rectangle
X,Y,W,H = cv2.boundingRect(approx)
aspectratio = float(W)/H
if aspectratio >=1.5 :
count = count +1
cv2.drawContours(img, [approx], 0, (0,255,0),5)
x = approx.ravel()[0]
y = approx.ravel()[1]
cv2.putText(img, "rectangle"+str(i),(x,y),cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_COMPLEX, 0.5, (0,255,0))
print(count)
cv2.imshow("image",img)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
I am trying to extract the rectangles in an image after extraction, getting two contours for each shape that is detected i.e, lower bound and upper bound of each shape
I tried to convert the image to binary and applied dilation to it and extracted each contour. Here iam getting two countours for each shape but i need only one contour for each shape, how can i get only one countour for one shape.
I am trying to extract the rectangles in an image after extraction, getting two contours for each shape that is detected i.e, lower bound and upper bound of each shape
I tried to convert the image to binary and applied dilation to it and extracted each contour. Here iam getting two countours for each shape but i need only one contour for each shape, how can i get only one countour for one shape.
I've written an algorithm that would detect printed and handwritten digit and segment it but while removing outer rectangle handwritten digit is lost using clear_border from ski-image package. Any suggestion to prevent information.
Sample:
How to get all 5 characters separately?
Segmenting characters from the image -
Approach -
Threshold the image (Convert it to BW)
Perform Dilation
Check the contours are large enough
Find rectangular Contours
Take ROI and save the characters
Python Code -
# import the necessary packages
import numpy as np
import cv2
import imutils
# load the image, convert it to grayscale, and blur it to remove noise
image = cv2.imread("sample1.jpg")
gray = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
gray = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray, (7, 7), 0)
# threshold the image
ret,thresh1 = cv2.threshold(gray ,127,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)
# dilate the white portions
dilate = cv2.dilate(thresh1, None, iterations=2)
# find contours in the image
cnts = cv2.findContours(dilate.copy(), cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,
cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
cnts = cnts[0] if imutils.is_cv2() else cnts[1]
orig = image.copy()
i = 0
for cnt in cnts:
# Check the area of contour, if it is very small ignore it
if(cv2.contourArea(cnt) < 100):
continue
# Filtered countours are detected
x,y,w,h = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
# Taking ROI of the cotour
roi = image[y:y+h, x:x+w]
# Mark them on the image if you want
cv2.rectangle(orig,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(0,255,0),2)
# Save your contours or characters
cv2.imwrite("roi" + str(i) + ".png", roi)
i = i + 1
cv2.imshow("Image", orig)
cv2.waitKey(0)
First of all I thresholded the image to convert it to black n white. I get characters in white portion of image and background as black. Then I Dilated the image to make the characters (white portions) thick, this will make it easy to find the appropriate contours. Then find findContours method is used to find the contours. Then we need to check that the contour is large enough, if the contour is not large enough then it is ignored ( because that contour is noise ). Then boundingRect method is used to find the rectangle for the contour. And finally, the detected contours are saved and drawn.
Input Image -
Threshold -
Dilated -
Contours -
Saved characters -
Problem of eroded/cropped handwritten digits:
you may solve this problem in the recognition step, or even in image improvement step (before recognition).
if only a very small part of digit is cropped (such your image example), it's enough to pad your image around by 1 or 2 pixels to make the segmentation process easy. Or some morpho filter (dilate) can improve your digit even after padding. (these solution are available in Opencv)
if a enough good part of digit is cropped, you need to add a degraded/cropped pattern of digits to the training Dataset used for digit recognition algorithm, (i.e. digit 3 with all possible cropping cases.. etc)
Problem of characters separation :
opencv offers blob detection algorithm that works well on your issue (choose the correct value for concave & convexity params)
opencv offers as well contour detector (canny() function), that helps to detect the contours of your character then you can find the fitted bounding (offered by Opencv as well : cv2.approxPolyDP(contour,..,..)) box around each character