Introduction

This repo contains 2 python programs that use Visual Recognition with IBM Watson - Image Classification in a simple example under the supervision of DR.ALaa. The two programs are in the following files:watson_OCR.py and watson_classifier.py

Requiremnets for both programs

1-make sure you have python installed on you device 2-IBM Bluemix Account (free) - https://console.ng.bluemix.net/ 3-watson_developer_cloud module python module

How it works

1- Once registered, login to your account, go to Services -> Watson and create a Visual Recognition instance
2- Once you have your VR instance created, you will use its API credentials in your python code

for the first program

This programe takes an image and through Visual Recognition with IBM Watson - Image Classification tells you what is in the image and then redirects you to a Wikipedia article related to the topic of the image.

1- run the watson_classifier.py through IDLE

2- You can pick the image of your choice by replacing the images_url value with the url of your desired image

for the second program

This program takes an image with text and through Visual Recognition with IBM Watson - OCR extracts the text and print it

1- run the watson_OCR.py through IDLE 2-You can pick the image of your choice by replacing the images_url value with the url of your desired image

Run it throught CMD

open the file on your CMD and then type watson_OCR.py or watson_classifier.py

one-minute video as a demo for both programs

1- For watson_classifier.py 2- For watson_OCR.py

Issues

We are still trying to figure out how to make OCR extract Arabic text from images.