title: How to use the webcam to capture an image and extract the information on it using python?
body: <p>I was trying to capture am image on the webcam and extract the text information on it using the language of python.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import cv2
  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  import numpy as np
  import pytesseract
  
  from PIL import Image
  from pytesseract import image_to_string
  
  pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'
  
  def main():
      # Use the attached camera to capture images
      # 0 stands for the first one
      cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)   
  
      if cap.isOpened():
          ret, frame = cap.read()
          print(ret)
          print(frame)
      else:
          ret = False
  
      img1 = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
  
      # img = Image.open('image.jpg')
      text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img1)
      print(text)
  
      # plt.imshow(img1)
      # plt.title('Color Image RGB')
      # plt.xticks([])
      # plt.yticks([])
      # plt.show()
  
  
      cap.release()
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The code didn't work. I watched a couple of videos on Youtube, and I saw that people typically use Image.open("image.jpg") to open an image that is located on the computer. But I need to capture the image from the webcam and extract the information on it. So that method won't work in my situation. Is there a way to combine these two methods? Like capture the image using cv2 and extract the information using pytesseract.image_to_string()?</p>