Machine Learning in Python

Step 1: Install Required Libraries

You will need captcha for generating CAPTCHA images, and pytesseract (OCR tool) to read the text from the images.

Install them via pip:

pip install captcha pytesseract pillow

Step 2: Generate CAPTCHA Image Using ImageCaptcha

First, let's see how to generate a simple CAPTCHA image using the captcha library.

Example Code to Generate CAPTCHA:

This script will create a simple CAPTCHA image with the text 'ABCD' and save it as captcha_image.png.

Step 3: Read CAPTCHA Image Using OCR (pytesseract)

Now that you've generated a CAPTCHA image, you can use pytesseract to read the text from the image.

Example Code to Read CAPTCHA:

from PIL import Image
import pytesseract

# Path to the tesseract executable (you may need to adjust this depending on your OS)
pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'  # Windows path

# Load the CAPTCHA image
captcha_image = Image.open('captcha_image.png')

# Use pytesseract to extract text from the image
captcha_text = pytesseract.image_to_string(captcha_image)

# Print the extracted text
print("Extracted CAPTCHA Text:", captcha_text.strip())