Need to read text from a metal plate. Text is embossed on the plate.

The first image (file named: foto7.png) is my input image and using OCR i need to read the text written on the image.

I did some pre-processing and those were

1. Converted the Image to grayscale
2. Sharpening the grayscale image

I2 = imsharpen(I,'Amount',0.475);% 0.475

3. Threshold of image

I2 = imbinarize(I2,'adaptive','ForegroundPolarity','dark','Sensitivity',0.37); %0.37 and dark

The output Image after doing the above steps is attacehed (file named: output image).

4. Finally OCR

The result i obtained from OCR is

IMO Energy GmbH & Cd. VKG ~

‘ I-14/0.5.839‘/r_JQ —uCJ6 l

' www.imo.de L

Is there any idea that can be implemented so that correct can be read from the image.

[DGM]

I don't have any OCR tools, so I'm in no position to test anything. That said, flattening the lighting may help:

I = imread('https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/883005/foto7.png');
I = rgb2gray(I);

I2 = imflatfield(I,20);
I2 = imadjust(I2);
subplot(2,1,1)
imshow(I)
subplot(2,1,2)
imshow(I2)

[Jacob Mathew]

Hello,

Thank you DGM for your help. Unfortunately it didn't came as expected.

Answer 1

[yanqi liu]

yes，sir，may be use other ocr model，such as

https://cloud.tencent.com/act/event/ocrdemo

[Jacob Mathew]

Thank you yanqi liu.

I will surely check out the website.

[Jacob Mathew]

Hi Yanqi Liu,

Once again thank you for the website.

the website is in chinese languaue and I couldn't trasnlate it. Moreover, could you help me with matlab way?